Inset: Ronald Cantrell (Bannock County Sheriff’s Office). Background: The 1100 block of North Main Street in Pocatello, Idaho, where Cantrell allegedly killed a neighbor (Google Maps).
Cops in Idaho say a man told them, “I killed that guy,” over a “deep distrust” after they found a victim in a car with a sword protruding from his torso.
Ronald Cantrell, 69, is accused of second-degree murder in the death of Wayne Weberpal, court records say.
According to a probable cause arrest affidavit obtained by the East Idaho News, cops responded to a stabbing call around 2 p.m. Thursday at an apartment in the 1100 block of North Main Street in Pocatello.
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When they arrived, they found a man later identified as Cantrell standing by a car with his hands up. Officers placed Cantrell in handcuffs, and as they were walking him to the patrol car, he allegedly said, “I killed that guy,” the affidavit reportedly said.
Police went back to the car, where they found Weberpal with a sword “protruding from the left side of his upper torso, below his armpit,” cops wrote. He was pronounced dead.
The suspect reportedly made “several more statements” about killing the victim, his neighbor, whom he called a “mad man.”
“[Cantrell] then stated, ‘I got the gun out, and I cut his gun.’ [Cantrell] continued making statements regarding a firearm equipped with a silencer and repeatedly referred to the other male subject as ‘a killer,'” officers wrote.
Officers found a long gun with a suppressor, but it had a trigger lock, which contradicted Cantrell’s claim that he shot the victim in self-defense, according to the affidavit.
The suspect later told investigators that he had a “deep distrust” of Weberpal.
“Cantrell described multiple times that he believed the victim had been lying in wait to ambush him,” the complaint reportedly said.
Cops took Cantrell to the Bannock County Jail, where he remains held on $500,000 bond. His next court date is set for Nov. 18.
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