JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A man already sentenced to life in prison for stabbing a man during a robbery outside an Arlington convenience store in earlier this year is now charged with the murder of a woman during a home invasion.
Donald Banks, 33, is accused of killing 46-year-old Linda Volum, who was found dead in her home on Jasper Avenue March 10. Police went to her home after finding her stolen car crashed and abandoned in northwest Jacksonville.
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Investigators said they found a receipt in the car for beer and cigars from a store, and an empty beer can that had Banks' fingerprints on it.
The arrest report says Banks' admitted stabbing Volum to his girlfriend, and accidentally stabbed himself. Investigators believe that meant the victim fought back. Two bloody footprints found at the crime scene matched Banks' DNA and Volum's stolen laptop computer was found at the girlfriend's house.
Banks was convicted in September of aggravated assault and armed robbery of 67-year-old William Johnson.
Johnson remains hospitalized for months after being stabbed in the back outside an Arlington convenience store -- an attack that was recorded by a surveillance camera. Johnson died in September.
Banks was convicted in August and sentenced in September to life without parole, for armed robbery and attempted murder -- a mandatory sentence because Banks was a habitual offender.
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