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Cries for help, 'white demons' attack: Hillsborough Co. deputies dive into bizarre double homicide

Deputies are beginning an investigation into a bizarre double homicide, with a woman dead in a front yard, a house on fire next door and a 9-year-old child found dead inside.
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A child and a woman are dead and another child is hurt, but the events leading up to a shooting just before midnight Monday, March 19, are not yet known.

RIVERVIEW, Fla. -- On the line, a Hillsborough County dispatcher heard a caller say, "I've just been attacked by some white demons."

Deputies responded in kind and began an investigation into a bizarre double homicide, with Kenyatta Barron, 33, dead in a front yard, a house on fire next door and a girl found dead inside. Another child, a boy, was found with stab and burn wounds.

He reportedly told first responders, "My father shot my mother."

The scene played out just before midnight Monday in the area of Pike Lake Drive at Big Bend Road, according to a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office news release.

Dispatchers took a call around 11:43 p.m. Sunday from a woman. She reportedly pled for help, saying she had been shot. In the background, dispatchers heard a man yelling "Allah Akbar" while the woman said she was "so sorry."

The man is overheard to have said, "She killed me," and the call ends.

Fewer than 10 minutes later, a man calls dispatch.

"I've just been attacked by some white demons," he says, saying "her" name is "Ke-Ke," according to the news release. When asked whether "Ke-Ke" tried to attack him, he said yes.

Deputies made it to the home around 11:49 p.m. and found a woman lying dead in the front yard of a home. As they responded, they noticed the home next door on fire and a man, identified as 29-year-old Ronnie Oneal III, walking out of the garage and toward the deputies.

He reportedly ignored their commands to stop and deputies were forced to taze Oneal. He eventually complied and said "Allah Akbar" while being placed in the back of a county cruiser.

Oneal faces two counts of first-degree murder and one count each of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree arson of a dwelling and resisting arrest without violence.

While responding firefighters made their way into the burning home, the boy with apparent stab and burn wounds walked out and told medical personnel his father had shot his mother.

The girl with multiple stab wounds was found upon a search of the home, dead from her injuries.

The boy was taken to Tampa General Hospital for treatment.

Oneal's clothing was covered with what appeared to be blood, the news release states. He, too, had severe burns on his body and charred clothes.

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