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).
Idaho police say a man told them, “I killed that guy,” after allegedly stabbing a neighbor with a sword amid what he described as a “deep distrust” of the victim.
Ronald Cantrell, 69, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Wayne Weberpal, according to court records.
Police responded to a reported stabbing at about 2 p.m. Thursday at an apartment in the 1100 block of North Main Street in Pocatello, according to a probable-cause affidavit obtained by East Idaho News.
When officers arrived, they found a man later identified as Cantrell standing beside a car with his hands raised. After placing him in handcuffs, officers began escorting him to a patrol vehicle. During that process, Cantrell allegedly said, “I killed that guy,” the affidavit states.
Officers returned to the car and found Weberpal inside with a sword “protruding from the left side of his upper torso, below his armpit,” according to police. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators said Cantrell made “several more statements” about killing Weberpal, whom he identified as his neighbor and described as a “mad man.”
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“[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.
Police recovered a long gun fitted with a suppressor, but the weapon had a trigger lock. That finding conflicted with Cantrell’s claim that he had shot Weberpal in self-defense, according to the affidavit.
During a later interview, Cantrell 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 states.
Cantrell was booked into the Bannock County Jail, where he remains held on $500,000 bond. His next court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 18.
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