Sentenced: Pregnant Woman Found Beaten to Death Wrapped In Comforter In Shopping Cart; Suspect Arrested

[Sugar Cookie]

Donnie Danell White, 51, of Cedar Rapids, is charged with first-degree murder and nonconsensual termination of pregnancy in relation to the death of Brittany Hopkins, who was pregnant at the time of her death at the end of February.

According to a criminal complaint filed Monday, police were called at 8:33 a.m. Feb. 28 to a parking lot at 2110 Westdale Dr. SW after someone found Hopkins’ body left outside in a shopping cart. The body was wrapped in a blood-soaked white comforter and secured with electrical tape. Bags of garbage had been placed on top of the body.

Investigators identified the body as Hopkins and an autopsy determined she had died from blunt-force head injuries. After police released Hopkins’ name, someone contacted the police department to report that White had been with Hopkins in the days before she was found dead. Video surveillance from the Westdale Town Center parking lot confirmed this, showing White and Hopkins together Feb. 22 at the U-Haul at Westdale. Another witness also reported he had seen Hopkins and White together on Feb. 26 and that White has assaulted Hopkins in his presence, according to the complaint.

Police executed a search warrant on White’s apartment and found blood spatter on the walls, bleach stains on the carpet that were about the size and dimensions of a human body, a hammer with hair and blood on it, a broken CO2 air gun with more hair and blood on it, scuff and drag marks on the carpet, black electrical tape, documents that belonged to White and a bloody handprint that was identified as belonging to White, according to the complaint.

Police contacted the U.S. Marshals Service on March 14 to request help locating and apprehending White, who had left Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the police department. He was found and arrested March 19 by marshals in Las Vegas.

Cedar Rapids police: Murdered woman was found wrapped in comforter in shopping cart

CEDAR RAPIDS -- The body of a Cedar Rapids woman found dead last month in southwest Cedar Rapids had been wrapped in a comforter and left in a shopping cart,

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Brittany was a mother of 3

 

[Ella Mayo]

No number of searches yields any info on how they came to cross each other's path, so it's likely to be the most common explanation in this sort of case, with the usual MSM censorship.

Whose fourth pregnancy was she carrying? It'd be nice to be wrong, but I'll take those odds, if yer feelin' lucky: it was suicide by political correctness. Law enforcement's decades of collected data backs that side of the bet. Die of apoplexy, libtards.

 

[cubby]

He looks surprised that his brilliant plan failed.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Donnie White has pleaded guilty to second degree murder and non consensual termination of a pregnancy.

Hopkins’ mom wrote an victim impact statement which was read in court on Friday.

She wrote her daughter was 19 weeks pregnant when White beat her to death. And that she was a “disabled, trafficked victim.”

She said her daughter had reached out to local authorities for help before her murder, but was “seen as an addict” and “excused and pushed into silence”. The statement went on to say “those who failed her should face the consequences of what they did”.

“The man who did this may plead to a lesser charge. The harm is not lesser. The hole left in our family and in her children’s lives can never be filled. She never got to live free, she never got to hold her children again, and those who failed her should be forced to face what they did. Including those beyond this courtroom, and I am demanding full accountability of all police agencies.”

During the plea hearing, White admitted he beat Hopkins to death with a gun. He says he didn’t know she was pregnant at the time.

Donnie White sentenced for Cedar Rapids murder

A man has pleaded guilty to second degree murder and non consensual termination of a pregnancy. Donnie White killed Brittany Hopkins in February of 2025.

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Name:

Donnie Danell White

TDD/SDD *: 10/11/2067

Commitment Date: 06/26/2025

Recall Date: 05/29/2060

Mandatory Minimum (if applicable): 03/29/2060

He will do a minimum of 35 years.