On August 6, 2004, 28-year-old male Roberto “Tito” Gonzalez was killed during the Deltona “Xbox murders,” a home-invasion mass killing at 3106 Telford Lane in Deltona, Florida. Six victims—four men and two women—were slain inside the house in an attack carried out with baseball bats and knives/machetes. Reports indicate the victims died primarily from blunt-force trauma; some also suffered stab wounds. According to appellate and case-summary records, autopsies concluded blunt-force head injuries were the cause of death for the victims, with several exhibiting post-mortem stab wounds. Gonzalez’s ethnicity is not specified in the public court and news summaries reviewed.
Investigators determined that the motive centered on ringleader Troy Victorino’s desire for revenge against resident Erin Belanger, who had evicted him from her grandmother’s nearby home, and a dispute over Victorino’s Xbox console and clothing he claimed were taken. In the lead-up to the killings, witnesses saw the group with bats at a Wal-Mart, and Victorino—then on probation—had been arrested days earlier on an unrelated assault, circumstances later criticized as missed opportunities to detain him.
Court records and subsequent reporting establish that four men—Troy Victorino, Jerone Hunter, Robert Cannon, and Michael Salas—carried out the murders. All four were arrested, tried, and convicted in 2006. The judge sentenced Victorino and Hunter to death and Cannon and Salas to life in prison; the death sentences were overturned in 2017 due to changes in Florida’s death-penalty law requiring unanimous juries. In 2023–2025, the courts held resentencing proceedings for Victorino and Hunter; in May 2025 a jury recommended death again for both men for, among others, the murders of 28-year-old male Roberto “Tito” Gonzalez and 18-year-old Jonathan Gleason. Final sentencing remained with the judge at the time of those recommendations. Gonzalez’s ethnicity remains unspecified in those proceedings.
Multiple contemporaneous and retrospective accounts identify the other victims as Erin Belanger, 22; Michelle Nathan, 19; Francisco “Flaco” Ayo-Roman, 30; Anthony Vega, 34; and Jonathan Gleason, 17 or 18. Coverage also notes that a pet dachshund was killed. The attack has been described by local authorities as among the worst crimes in Volusia County history, with blood evidence in nearly every room.
Details specific to 28-year-old male Roberto “Tito” Gonzalez indicate he was at the home as a co-worker and friend staying the night and that he had recently moved to Florida from New York. Case narratives attribute his killing to Jerone Hunter, who fatally beat him with a bat and stabbed him; ethnicity for the 28-year-old male victim is not stated in those records.
