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Posted on 06/27/2004 7:44:08 PM PDT by esryle
NAPLES, Fla. -- A man who was covered in blood walked into a Wal-Mart on Friday and bought garbage bags, raising suspicions that lead authorities to charge him with murder.
Sheddrick Deon Bentley, 26, was charged with second-degree murder of 18-year-old Cory Brightman, whose stabbed body was found in a garbage bin. Bentley, who also faces charges including grand theft auto, was held without bail at the Collier County Jail.
Bentley is the nephew of former Indianapolis Colts running back Albert Bentley, and had been living with his uncle for about two months. The elder Bentley said his nephew and Brightman were friends.
"They were together a couple of days ago," Bentley said. "They were hanging out together. Everything seemed fine."
Wal-Mart workers called deputies after a blood-soaked man walked into the store and bought some clothes, bandages and trash bags around 4 a.m. He paid with a $100 bill that also appeared to be bloodstained, they said, and drove off in a pickup.
Deputies found a man that matched his description, but the man fled. Sheddrick Bentley was arrested after a second search.
Bentley told officers that Brightman attacked him with a knife near a trash bin and he fought back in self defense. Bentley had cuts on his hands, but they didn't appear to be defense injuries, authorities said.
Inside the trash bin was a pair of bloody sneakers that matched the footprints at Wal Mart and in front of the house of a witness, who said she saw Bentley and Brightman fighting.
Detectives also found a white Dodge pickup that had blood on it parked at a Comfort Inn about two miles from the trash bin.
Albert Bentley was a running back on the University of Miami's 1983 national title team and later played in the NFL from 1985-92 with the Colts and Pittsburgh Steelers.
Darwin Award Alert candidate. Tony Soprano would never walk covered in blood into a Wal-mart to to buy a garbage bag. And look who ended up in the garbage!
The guy sounds about as mentally stable as Al Gore.
Yeah, but the guy isn't stupid enough to have died. No Darwin Candidate.
But he's stupid enough to get captured. Ain't no survival of the fittest. Some criminals are really THAT dumb.
"A man who was covered in blood walked into a Wal-Mart on Friday and bought garbage bags, raising suspicions..."
You Don't Say!
Dumb, just plain dumb.
Thank heavens for 24-hour stores!
A person has to have done an awful lot of drugs to do something like this. I'm talking half the cortex fried.
Indeed!
Note to self: under similar circumstances, before venturing into a local Mego-Lo-Mart outlet take a shower first!
Another good reason to hate Wal mart! At a good ole all American store no one would pay attention!
Tip #1 :
Discard bloodsoaked clothing before shopping at WalMart.
Sheddrick Deon Bentley
Got to wonder what his mother was trying to spell.
I suspect she was trying to spell "Wayne" and came up with "Deon"!
Well what can you say... One-Stop Shopping?
So9
That means Sheddrick was Richard.
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