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Prosecutors To Seek The Death Penalty

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By TODD LESKANIC, The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 5, 2007

NEW PORT RICHEY - Prosecutors announced this week that they will seek the death penalty for self-professed neo-Nazi John Allen Ditullio Jr., who is accused in a fatal stabbing.
Ditullio is charged in the March 2006 death of 17-year-old Kristofer Guy King. Ditullio's attorney, Bjorn Brunvand, declined to comment on the prosecution's announcement.

King was staying overnight at the Teak Street home of Patricia Wells when a man wearing a military-style gas mask broke in and stabbed them, authorities said. Wells, whose son was a close friend of King's, survived the attack.

Ditullio, 21, is charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder. No trial date has been set.

At the time, Wells lived next door to Brian 'Zero' Buckley, leader of a white supremacist group dubbed the Teak Street Nazis. Ditullio was a member of the group and has described Buckley as the father figure he never had.

Buckley, 45, was convicted last year of chasing Wells into her home and then punching a hole in her door two weeks before the stabbings. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Wells endured a barrage of racial and sexual taunts from her neighbors in the weeks leading up to both incidents. Wells has said she thinks the repeated visits of a black friend at her home prompted the attacks.

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