Posted on 10/02/2021 6:57:01 PM PDT by Trillian
Two people have died and a third is not expected to survive in Florida after authorities in Florida say a man went on a rampage with a baseball bat and a knife.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said during a press conference that the suspect, 39-year-old Shaun Runyon, was in Polk County, Florida, with a Pennsylvania electric company doing work for Publix Supermarkets’ when a dispute at work prompted him to return to his company-rented housing and attack several people.
Police say Runyon punched a supervisor at work around 2 A.M. on Friday and fled. He was not seen or heard from until Saturday morning around 9:45 when police received a report of a murder in Davenport, Florida, in a neighborhood where Runyon and his co-workers were being housed by their employer.
According to police, the 39-year-old beat one victim to death with a baseball bat while the victim was asleep in bed, and a second victim was found dead on the front porch. A third victim was badly beaten and is in a hospital in "extremely critical condition." A fourth victim was hit in the neck with a bat by Runyon but escaped. Three more victims, including a 7-year-old girl, escaped without being harmed.
After the attack, Runyon fled and knocked on the door of a home in Lake Wales, Florida, covered in blood and telling homeowners he had been raped. He then shed his bloody clothes and went to a hospital at the suggestion of the homeowners. He was taken into custody by police at the hospital.
Runyon has confessed to knowing the victims but police do not know a motive yet.
"We had no idea what outraged him so bad that more than 24 hours later that he would come back and make an attempt to kill
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Baseball bat registration and control NOW. De-bat and ban all baseball teams as they are spreading bat violence from grade school to universities. No more bats, especially since baseball bats may also be a source of the Wuhan virus!
Why doesn’t the article specify if he was vaccinated?
I’m pretty sure this guy exhibited a lot of warning signs before this happened.
It’s the florida water. He hadn’t developed a tolerance yet. Very sad.
must be the Estrogen moving south in the rivers.
Used to live in Davenport, Florida. What a wonky den of inequity...
In any truly civilized country this murderer would immediately be tried, convicted, sentenced to death and publicly hanged all within a week or two of his apprehension. No consideration of “motive” and no consideration of mental illness would be permitted at trial. And neither the verdict nor the sentence would be subject to appeal.
SPJNK.
3 2 1... until libs call for more bat control!
Was it an assault knife and an assault bat?
Grady Judd was wearing his relaxed attire during his press conference this afternoon. He was rocking blue jeans and a denim button down with the sheriff logo. Very hip.
TPTB want it to happen so they can exploit it for more laws and reduction of freedoms
Davenport a couple of miles from me. Why did they have to mention publix. Home of sheriff grady judd.
If they outlaw bats, then only outlaws will have bats.
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