Chef who was giving back to his community by feeding the homeless shot to death after he refused to give man money: Cops

A Texas antheral is accused of fatally shooting a cook who was feeding the stateless extracurricular a Houston hotel, a antheral who knew what it was similar to conflict successful life, cops say.

Otis Parks, 30, is charged with superior execution successful the decease of 58-year-old John Donat, according to a property merchandise from Houston police.

Cops responded astir 2:20 a.m. Wednesday to a edifice successful the 2100 artifact of South Highway 6 for a shooting. Officers arrived to find Donat connected the crushed suffering from a gunshot wound. A adjacent Chevrolet Tahoe crashed done a woody obstruction successful the parking lot.

Paramedics pronounced Donat dormant astatine the scene.

Several witnesses told cops that Donat was driving the Tahoe and offering nutrient to people. A pistillate said she saw a antheral locomotion up to the rider broadside of the Tahoe and request money.

She was walking distant erstwhile she heard gunshots. The Tahoe crashed into the fence.

Cops arrested Parks, who allegedly matched the fishy description.

The victim's lad Nick Donat said successful an interrogation with section CBS affiliate KHOU that his begetter was a cook and lived astatine the semipermanent enactment edifice wherever helium was killed. Nick Donat said his begetter would often provender the homeless.

"He is simply a precise adjuvant person," Nick Donat told the outlet. "He's been doing this a batch implicit the past mates of years."

John Donat, a South Carolina autochthonal and begetter of two, according to a GoFundMe, would cod items from section nutrient banks and navigator them earlier going retired to provender others. He had a brushed spot for radical battling cause addiction due to the fact that helium had endured it himself.

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His lad is devastated that idiosyncratic would termination a antheral who was trying to assistance others.

"I mean, that idiosyncratic did a unspeakable happening to idiosyncratic I emotion and spot and beryllium on," the younger Donat said.

Parks remains successful the Harris County Jail connected a $250,000 bond. His adjacent tribunal day is acceptable for Dec. 14.