A convicted felon from Ocala, who shot his girlfriend in the back while chasing after her at a local motel in 2024, will spend the next two decades in prison.
On Thursday, a Marion County jury found 37-year-old Donald Lorenzo Roberts, Jr. guilty of the following charges: aggravated battery with a firearm, possession of a firearm by a felon, tampering with physical evidence, discharging a firearm in public, and providing false identification to law enforcement.
After the verdict was read, Roberts was sentenced to 20 years in prison, which will be served consecutively with a 15-year sentence that he is currently serving for an unrelated case.
The charges against Roberts stem from a shooting that occurred at the Motel 6 located at 3810 NW Blitchton Road in Ocala, near an Interstate 75 overpass, in October of 2024…