Enraged because two guys who came over to his place to smoke weed with his brother wouldn't let him join in, a Florida man allegedly stabbed one of them to death and then made a run for it, hiding in the bushes to dodge the cops.
Meet Joseph McDonald (pictured above), 31, who was just chilling at home on Sunday when his supposed victim and another man, who ended up being a witness, dropped by to get high, as per the police.
McDonald let them into the house, but they weren't there to hang out with him. Instead, the victim, whose name the police haven't shared yet, was looking for McDonald's brother, according to local Fox affiliate WOFL.
The witness spilled the beans to the police, saying that things went south real fast when McDonald got ticked off for missing out on the smoking session, and it escalated to a deadly level.
The cops got a call about the incident, initially thinking it was a shooting. However, they soon figured out it was actually a stabbing, as mentioned in a Facebook statement by the Volusia Sheriff's Office detailing the alleged crime and McDonald's arrest.
On Sunday, officers tracked down McDonald just a few hours after the 21-year-old victim emerged from McDonald's place with a noticeable wound to his belly, and the witness tried to help before dialing 911.
When the victim was asked who had hurt him, he "pointed back at the house but was unable to provide more details," according to the police announcement of McDonald's arrest.
They rushed the victim to a Deltona hospital, but sadly, he didn't make it.
In a Facebook video of the intense bust posted by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office on Sunday, you can see the cops surrounding McDonald once they spotted him around 1 p.m. They had K-9 units with them, and police helicopters were flying overhead.
They found McDonald hiding in the bushes about three miles from the alleged murder scene. His hand was bleeding, and he had wrapped it with some kind of cloth. The police took him to a Sanford hospital for medical care, and the officials there confirmed that his hand appeared to be cut by a sharp object.
McDonald had only been living at the residence for a couple of months before this incident, and the police got word that he "had been dealing with mental illness for several years."
On Monday, the police confirmed that McDonald is being held without bail at the Volusia County jail, facing a first-degree murder charge.
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