Shaun Runyon Charged In Florida With Triple Murder Of Coworkers Using Knife And Baseball Bat

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MIAMI (CBSMiami/CNN) — A antheral who authorities accidental killed 3 of his coworkers with a shot bat and weapon successful Florida connected Saturday has been charged with murder.

Shaun Paul Runyon killed his coworkers wrong the rental location they shared successful Davenport, successful cardinal Florida, according to an affidavit from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

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Runyon, 39, is charged with 3 counts of first-degree execution and 1 number of aggravated artillery successful transportation with the incident. He is being held successful Polk County Jail with nary bond, according to jailhouse records.

Runyon, who is temporarily successful Florida arsenic a declaration electrician for Pennsylvania-based institution J&B Electric, was progressive successful a carnal altercation with a coworker astatine a occupation tract Friday, the affidavit says.

“Friday greeting astatine astir 2 a.m., Shaun Runyon got huffy arsenic a effect of a occupation with a supervisor and helium punched his supervisor and fled from the workplace,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters astatine a quality league Saturday.

Runyon near the worksite and drove to Tampa International Airport, astir 70 miles to the west, wherever helium parked his enactment vehicle, rented a car and drove to a Target store to bargain a shot bat, detectives said.

On Saturday morning, helium returned to the rental home, wherever Judd said 7 radical were staying, “armed with the shot bat and a tiny weapon which was a idiosyncratic weapon helium owned,” according to the affidavit.

Runyon told deputies helium went into the chamber of the coworker with whom helium fought Friday and bushed him “until helium saw ‘brain matter,'” the affidavit says.

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The unfortunate was inactive live erstwhile authorities arrived. He was airlifted to a section infirmary but aboriginal died, the affidavit says.

After attacking the archetypal victim, the affidavit says, Runyon entered different chamber and bushed a 2nd coworker to death. He past went into a 3rd chamber and stabbed different idiosyncratic to decease aft missing him with his shot bat, according to the affidavit.

Runyon chased different coworker retired of the location but was capable lone to onslaught him successful the enarthrosis and back, Judd said, adding that a mates and their kid were besides capable to flight the location unharmed.

Runyon fled and aft a two-hour manhunt, deputies arrested him astatine a section hospital, according to the sheriff’s bureau Facebook page. Runyon was not injured, according to Judd.

“We person nary thought what outraged him truthful atrocious that much than 24 hours later, that helium would travel backmost and marque an effort to termination each 1 of them,” Judd said.

“It’s safe. The murderer, the horrible murderer, is successful custody and the assemblage is erstwhile again safe.”

In the past, records amusement Runyon has faced transgression charges retired of authorities including endangering the payment of children, strangulation, DUI and elemental assault.

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