COCOA, Fla. (AP) — An 18-year-old Florida man is accused of ambushing a jogger, who he deliberate to kill and conceal the physique in a bed room closet at his residence, sheriff’s officers stated.
The person advised Brevard County Sheriff’s investigators he had first seen the jogger passing by about six weeks in the past. On Monday, he hid behind a lightweight pole and waited for the jogger to go by, authorities stated in an arrest report.
He was armed with a rubber mallet, an aerosol deodorant can and a mattress sheet, which he had specified by the driveway, the report stated. When the jogger handed by, the person threw a belt from a gown round his neck.
However the jogger, who’s skilled in martial arts, foiled the assault by liberating himself and holding the person down till regulation enforcement officers arrived and arrested him. The jogger was not injured.
Investigators outlined the person’s “calculated” plan to kill jogger within the arrest report.
“He additional deliberate to put the sufferer’s physique into his closet the place the defendant acknowledged nobody would know and the defendant might have the sufferer’s physique all to himself,” Deputy Carson Hendren wrote in an arrest report.
The person advised investigators he had watched a violent film earlier than the assault, however the report didn’t checklist the identify of the film.
The person was charged with tried homicide.
