Summary: Client brings his freshly killed neighbor to his attorney’s office.
If you’ve been disputing with your neighbor over property work, things get ugly, and you end up shooting him in self-defense, where do you bring the body? A Lee County man loaded up his neighbor’s body in his pickup truck and brought it to the one place he could trust: his attorney’s firm.
At around 4 p.m. Wednesday, a disheveled John Marshall brought the remains of his neighbor in the bed of his truck to Harris Law Firm on Virginia Avenue where his lawyer, Robert Harris, works. The attorneys there promptly called 911, and soon a swarm of police officers flooded the office.
Marshall, 52, was taken away at 10:33 p.m. to Lee Memorial Hospital, subsequent of his swollen lip, missing tooth, and two broken thumbs – injuries Harris later described.
Marshall had told his attorneys he feared for his safety regarding this neighbor. He and his neighbor were disputing over property work in Bokelia, and the attorneys advised him to get a restraining order.
Too late on that, but police nevertheless appear to believe Marshall’s story that the neighbor, Ted Hubbel, pulled the gun, and he wrestled it away and shot the man in self-defense. Police released him on Wednesday night.
News Source: Wink News