Convicted Winter Garden killer to face death penalty

Curtis Windom was convicted of killing three people and injuring another person in Winter Garden in 1992, claiming they had become informants. 

Those included his girlfriend, her mother and his best friend. 

After more than 30 years, he is being put to death for his crimes. 

Gov. Ron DeSantis singed Windom's death warrant for 6 p.m. Aug. 28. 

According to court documents Windom claimed  Johnnie Lee owed him $2,000. On Feb. 7, 1992, upon learning that Lee had won $114 at the dog track, Windom told an acquaintance he was going to kill Lee. 

That same day, Windom purchased a .38 caliber revolver and ammunition. Minutes later, Windom drove his car next to where Lee was standing and shot Lee twice in the back. He then got out of the car and shot Lee two more times at close range as Lee lay on the ground

After killing Lee, Windom ran toward the apartment of his on-again-off-again girlfriend, Valerie Davis. Within seconds of arriving at Davis’s apartment, Windom shot her in the chest, killing her. 

Windom then left the apartment and shot Kenneth Williams on the street. Williams was seriously injured but survived.

From there, Windom ended up behind Brown’s Bar, where three men, including Windom’s brother, were trying to take the weapon away from him. By that time, Davis’s mother, Mary Lubin, had learned her daughter had been shot, so she had left work and was driving down the street. When she stopped at a stop sign, Windom approached her car, said something to her, and then shot her twice, killing her.

The trial court sentenced Windom to death for the murders of Lee, Davis and Lubin.

The Florida Supreme Court affirmed Windom’s convictions and death sentences on direct appeal. 

Now, Curtisia Windom, Curtis Windom's daughter is asking for his life to be spared. 

"I don't like the decisions he's made, but he's not a bad person," she said.