Number 8 Joanne Mercader
In early 2020, Florida woman Joanne Mercader, aged 59, was arrested and charged with battery
on a person 65 or older following an incident that took place at her rented mobile home,
in Osteen. Mercader’s 65-year-old landlady, whose name wasn’t released, had arrived at the property
one evening to check on some broken items. She made her way inside the trailer after repeatedly
knocking on the front door and receiving no reply. It was then that Mercader threw a bucket of
human excrement into the homeowner’s face. Police were called to the address and arrived to find the
woman “completely covered in feces”. As shown by bodycam footage, Mercader herself had been
left covered in human waste after she and the landlady had gotten into a physical altercation.
The renter took responsibility for the incident but claimed it had been accident. In a written
statement, Mercader said she’d intended to throw a pail of water at her landlady,
but reached for the wrong bucket. She was released on her own recognizance after being charged.
Number 7 Manuel Velasquez In January of 2019,
a real-estate broker was gunned down in Salt Lake City, Utah, while he was trying to evict tenants
from a property he owned in Sugar House. The 40-year-old’s body was later found,
wrapped in a sheet and blanket, in a crawl space of the apartment, after he’d been reported missing
by his wife. Charged in connection to his killing were tenants Manuel Velasquez, Jessica Reese and
their friend, Diana Hernandez. The authorities had started looking for Velasquez and Reese,
when they couldn’t find them at the address. A Salt Lake City SWAT team located them
and Hernandez at another apartment, where they took them into custody after a brief standoff.
Velasquez was booked on suspicion of murder, obstruction of justice, possession of a firearm by
a restricted person and a felony-level discharge of a firearm offense. His female accomplices, who
were said to have attempted to clean up the crime scene at the apartment, were booked on allegations
of obstruction of justice. They’d reportedly used a skateboard to move Stokoe’s body into
the crawl space after he’d been shot four times by 31-year-old Velasquez. The trio maintained
that the real estate broker had initiated the altercation by kicking down the door and then
putting Velasquez in a headlock, allegedly prompting the man to shoot him in self-defense.
The victim’s family disagreed with the suspects’ version of events, claiming that Stokoe wasn’t a
violent person and that he’d merely informed them they needed to clear out the property.
Additionally, Velasquez had a criminal history. He was charged with attempted murder, in 2010, but
the case was dismissed before it could go to trial because the state’s witnesses had disappeared.
Number 6 Jonathan Lyndale Kirk Rapper Jonathan Lyndale Kirk,
professionally known as DaBaby, was sued in 2021 by Los Angeles homeowner Gary Pagar for close to
$118,000. 29-year-old Kirk and a small group of his associates had rented out Pagar’s house
for “a private vacation”. However, as stated by Pagar in the lawsuit, they violated the rental
agreement terms by having approximately 40 people at the home, including YouTuber Jake Paul. Kirk
was accused to have used the property to allow a full commercial film crew to record a music video.
Moreover, when 64-year-old Pagar confronted him, he was "beat, punched, spat on, threatened,
shoved, and robbed" by the rapper and members of his entourage. A clip of the altercation would
show Pagar being pushed to the ground, in his driveway, and punched by one of Kirk’s associates
as the rapper and Paul watched on from a nearby car. In the suit Pagar also stated that Kirk then
followed him inside the house, took his phone and threatened to stop him from calling the police.
The rapper and his team fled the premises once the authorities were eventually alerted. Pictures
from the home showed dozens of firearms on the premises, including a multitude of AK-47 assault
rifles. As per Pagar’s claims, the incident had left the house with a broken foyer sculpture,
stolen kitchenware, a massive amount of trash, and damages to the upholstery and floor.
Number 5 Randal J. Hennessey On September the 14th of 2021,
a man from Biddeford, Maine, was gunned down while trying to evict a tenant. 31-year-old Douglas
Michaud and his girlfriend, Jamie Wakefield, lived in a three-story apartment building,
owned by the former, and the room below them had been rented out to Randal J. Hennessey,
aged 30. He and Michaud had had trouble in the past and the landlord was in the process of
kicking Hennessey out. Wakefield would later report to the authorities that she’d been having
a confrontational talk with Hennessy outside the building, when Michaud approached them and
told the tenant to leave her alone. He walked back inside, while the couple went to the front porch.
Hennessy then emerged armed with a handgun and shot Michaud multiple times in the chest before
going back inside. As Wakefield was tending to him, Hennessey returned and shot his landlord
once more, in the head, at point blank range. He fled the scene on a dirt bike and rode along
train tracks from Biddeford to New Hampshire. The authorities talked with him over the phone
and he agreed to surrender at a location in Durham. Hennessey’s case is ongoing and,
in December of 2021, he pleaded not guilty to murder and gun charges.
Number 4 Ellen Wink
A Connecticut public official was charged with murder, in January of 2022, after she’d shot her
tenant dead inside the Norwalk residence that she owned. At the time, Ellen Wink, aged 61,
was the city's deputy Republican registrar of voters and she’d served as city clerk from 2009
to 2011. She and her tenant, 54-year-old Kurt Lametta, had been in a long-running dispute
over rent payment. Wink had previously been arrested for illegally locking Lametta out
of the house and she was also reported to have disposed of his belongings in the city dump.
On January the 20th, Wink went to the home and fatally shot Lametta five times with a revolver.
She then left the premises and called 911, telling dispatch that the man had come at her because
she’d been cleaning up the abode. Court documents indicated, however, that Wink then admitted to
responding officers that she’d shot Lametta, adding "he's been my tenant and driving me
nuts." The woman’s bail was initially set at $1 million but later upgraded to $2.5 million,
in February of 2022, following the emergence of cellphone footage which seemingly disproved
the public official’s claims of self-defense. Lametta had recorded his encounter with Wink on
his cellphone. The two had had a conversation and, at no point, did the tenant appear to make a move
towards the woman. Three minutes into the clip, she turned around and began shooting at Lametta,
seemingly following him as he attempted to flee. She then picked up the phone and
threw it outside, which prosecutors argued was her preventing him from immediately calling for help.
Number 3 Donald Wayne Toomer Jr 45-year-old Keila Oliver was found in critical
condition at her home, in Grand Bay, Alabama, after she’d been viciously attacked by a former
tenant, in April of 2016. The woman had to be placed in a medically induced coma for treatment,
at the University of South Alabama trauma center, after suffering multiple lacerations to her face.
Donald Wayne Toomer Jr. was identified as a suspect and arrested at his residence roughly
an hour after the attack. Toomer had rented a room from Oliver roughly four years prior
and admitted to have punched the victim seven or eight times but the police suspected that an axe
retrieved from the scene had also been used in the attack. Toomer didn’t state a clear reason
for the attack but did mention being aggravated by unspecified rumors Oliver had allegedly
spread about him. He was initially charged with burglary and assault but, at the recommendation
of the Mobile County District Attorney, the charges were later upgraded to attempted murder.
Number 2 Rampersaud Persaud Rampersaud Persaud was charged with
murder and arson, in September of 2019, after he’d started the fire that killed his former landlady.
49-year-old Persaud was reportedly angry that the woman, identified as 63-year-old Bibi Jasmin
by the New York Post, had kicked him out of their shared Queens Village home. Jasmin was reportedly
helping the man, who’d arrived in New York City a few months prior from Guyana. He’d initially
claimed that he didn’t have a place to stay while visiting the city but the visit turned into an
indefinite stay. Persaud reportedly didn’t pay rent or bills and eventually started threatening
Jasmin with violence before she eventually kicked him out in late August. He sought vengeance and,
as the woman slept, Persaud doused her bedroom in flammable liquid and then set it ablaze.
At the time, Jasmin was wheelchair-bound, after having recently suffered stroke. She was unable
to escape the 1st floor home on her own and was later found dead in her bed. Persaud admitted to
setting the fatal fire upon being arrested by the NYPD and surveillance footage had captured
him pacing outside the building, on 219th St. near Hillside Ave., prior to the incident.
Number 1 Dmitry Mikhaylov
In 2011, Virginia woman Lisa Sales agreed to rent out her basement, for $2,000 per month, to Russian
immigrant Dmitry Mikhaylov, who was attending graduate school at George Washington University
School of Business. They got along at first, with reports claiming that Sales was treating Mikhaylov
like a younger brother. The woman, nevertheless, found her tenant suspicious. His life was far from
that of a regular student, as he drove a luxury Mercedes and would always buy multiple rounds
of alcohol for people when they went out. Their relationship was irreparably fractured on
September the 16th, when Mikhaylov returned home, after a night of heavy drinking, and attacked
Sales. He slammed her dog against a dresser before throwing the woman to the ground and attempting
to abuse her. The assault allegedly lasted for several hours, with the intoxicated Mikhaylov
continuously pushing down his landlady and groping her. He attempted to strangle her in the bathroom
but she broke free and managed to barricade herself with furniture in her bedroom. The attack
left Sales with injuries to her cervical spine and Mikhaylov was subsequently charged with battery,
to which he eventually pleaded guilty. He spent less than a month in jail and, days after his
arrest, Sales went through his belongings. She found a flash drive that contained an investment
report listing total assets of over $16 million and a letter to Mikhaylov written by his father,
Valeriy, from Lefortovo, a Russian prison where the country’s most high-profile criminals are
detained. As she pieced her tenant’s life together, Sales found that his father had, at one
point, been one of the CIA’s most valuable assets. He’d reportedly agreed to spy for the agency, in
2001, and spent six years collecting information on the Kremlin and President Vladimir Putin before
he was eventually arrested by Russian authorities. The woman contacted the FBI and expressed her
suspicion that Mikhaylov had “fiduciary responsibility” for his imprisoned father
but didn’t receive an answer back. Eventually, in a civil suit against Mikhaylov, Sales was awarded
$300,000 in damages for assault and battery and for infliction of emotional distress.
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