Man cut off grandfather’s ears after deadly beating, stabbing, says Lake County sheriff’s office

LAKE COUNTY, Florida. – A man is arrested in Lake County after police say he brutally beat and stabbed his grandfather to death before cutting the victim’s ears.

Investigators were called to a home on Lake Mack Drive in Deland on Saturday night.

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Kolby Allen Parker, 30, told investigators that his grandfather Ronal Wells, Sr., 77, attacked him while the two smoked marijuana, according to a press release.

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Investigators said that while the man was talking to deputies, he took two human ears, which belonged to the victim, from his pocket. Parker then became violent and attacked the deputies, the statement said, but ended up being restrained.

The deputies said they executed a search warrant on the house, finding a bloody baseball bat and a large butcher knife also dripping blood.

Parker confessed to hitting his grandfather with the baton and then stabbing him several times before cutting the victim’s ears, according to the statement.

Investigators said Parker told them that he wanted his grandfather to stay with his dead grandmother.

Park is held without bail and faces charges of assaulting a police officer, resisting with violence and second-degree murder.

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