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Billings Murder Getaway Driver Gonzalez, Sr. Dies In Prison
June 15, 2015
Inmate Leonard Patrick Gonzalez, Sr. has died in a Florida prison. He was was convicted in the murders of Byrd and Melanie Billings and then sentenced to 17½ years. He was set to serve the remainder of his sentence after an early release for health issues was denied.
In March, the Florida Department of Corrections said Gonzalez, Sr. had a terminal illness and had less than one year to live. He was in a wheelchair and needed assistance to complete ordinary daily activities.
In total, eight people were convicted for planning and participating in the Beulah murders, including Gonzalez, Sr.’s son Leonard Patrick Gonzalez, Jr. An Escambia County Jury convicted Gonzalez, Jr. to two counts of first degree murder and one count of home invasion robbery with a firearm. Gonzalez, Jr. received two death penalties and a life sentence and remains on Florida’s death row.
The special needs children that were at home during the July 9, 2009, murder of their adoptive parents have been adopted by the Billings’ older daughter Ashley Markham.
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11 Responses to “Billings Murder Getaway Driver Gonzalez, Sr. Dies In Prison”
God got the last word…Works for me…
It comforting to know i have a God that can forgive, when man is not capable, look at Apostle Paul, he was a murderer and persecutor of Christians and mind you a pharisee, yet Christ used him in a mighty way.
Yes, I can only pray this man got right with the Lord, because if he didn’t he’s in a bad situation right now!
And just take this to heart, if you ever showed hatred to someone, in the eyes of a holy and righteous God it is the same as murder!
Mike,it sickens me too about our wasted tax dollars,the money taken from each paycheck to house and feed these criminals,did you know there have been heart and lung transplants on inmates on death row! my wife has great employer health care that we pay through the nose for,I have severe emphysema but the doctors said no to me for a transplant.?..go figure..
Personally I am glad they kept him in jail. The government frivolously spends tax payer dollars on a lot dumber things than keeping this scum locked up until he died in prison. Good riddance
@mike…..I have to disagree with you on releasing Mr. Gonzalez due to his health. Whether in prison or in the freeworld, I have no doubt that as taxpayers we would have ended up paying the bill for his care in some form. I, myself, would prefer my tax dollars to support him in prison….exactly where he deserved to die!! Why should we bestow any sympathy on Mr. Gonzalez when he showed none for the Billings nor those children on July 9, 2009.
sorry I wrote that comment quick.. but you get the point
Okay.. The Florida doc would not let him out so basically MORE of my tax dollars went to support him because he would of been send to a special needs prison hospital where it double the cost to take care of him, when you knew he was going to die, you could of sent him out and let his last days be miserable. I sure very few people would of took acre of him like the DOC had too…. again.. florida wasting MY tax dollars to prove a moot point…..
He had it coming!… Chief Sitting Bull when referring to George Armstrong Custer at the end of the Battle of The Greasy Grass, Little Big Horn or Custer’s Last Stand.
It applies here for the murderers and accessories after the fact for killing the Billings’
father and mother.
He had it coming!
Proverbs 6:17-18 The Lord hates hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes
Gone to his real judgment…
Hebrews 10:31 – It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.