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Bloody Wal-Mart Customer Bought Garbage Bags, Charged With Murder
NAPLES, Fla. -- A man who was covered in blood walked into a Wal-Mart on Friday and bought garbage bags, raising suspicions that lead authorities to charge him with murder.
Sheddrick Deon Bentley, 26, was charged with second-degree murder of 18-year-old Cory Brightman, whose stabbed body was found in a garbage bin. Bentley, who also faces charges including grand theft auto, was held without bail at the Collier County Jail.
Bentley is the nephew of former Indianapolis Colts running back Albert Bentley, and had been living with his uncle for about two months. The elder Bentley said his nephew and Brightman were friends.
"They were together a couple of days ago," Bentley said. "They were hanging out together. Everything seemed fine."
Wal-Mart workers called deputies after a blood-soaked man walked into the store and bought some clothes, bandages and trash bags around 4 a.m. He paid with a $100 bill that also appeared to be bloodstained, they said, and drove off in a pickup.
Deputies found a man that matched his description, but the man fled. Sheddrick Bentley was arrested after a second search.
Bentley told officers that Brightman attacked him with a knife near a trash bin and he fought back in self defense. Bentley had cuts on his hands, but they didn't appear to be defense injuries, authorities said.
Inside the trash bin was a pair of bloody sneakers that matched the footprints at Wal Mart and in front of the house of a witness, who said she saw Bentley and Brightman fighting.
Detectives also found a white Dodge pickup that had blood on it parked at a Comfort Inn about two miles from the trash bin.
Albert Bentley was a running back on the University of Miami's 1983 national title team and later played in the NFL from 1985-92 with the Colts and Pittsburgh Steelers.
reminds me of this: Guy tries to buy bolt cutters from Walmart with handcuffs on
Posted on Mon, Feb. 09, 2004
MAGNOLIA, Ark. - James Cotton looked just like any other Wal-Mart customer buying a bolt cutter at 4:30 in the morning - until the cashier noticed that Cotton was wearing handcuffs.
According to police, the clerk took Cotton's money, gave him the bolt cutter, then called officers. Cotton was caught minutes later Saturday, after he had gone into the bathroom and cut off the handcuffs.
Cotton had been arrested the night before by the Haynesville, La., police on charges of battery and possession of a narcotic, but he kicked out a window in a police car and fled, authorities said.
NAPLES, Fla. -- A man who was covered in blood walked into a Wal-Mart on Friday and bought garbage bags, raising suspicions that lead authorities to charge him with murder.
Sheddrick Deon Bentley, 26, was charged with second-degree murder of 18-year-old Cory Brightman, whose stabbed body was found in a garbage bin. Bentley, who also faces charges including grand theft auto, was held without bail at the Collier County Jail.
Bentley is the nephew of former Indianapolis Colts running back Albert Bentley, and had been living with his uncle for about two months. The elder Bentley said his nephew and Brightman were friends.
"They were together a couple of days ago," Bentley said. "They were hanging out together. Everything seemed fine."
Wal-Mart workers called deputies after a blood-soaked man walked into the store and bought some clothes, bandages and trash bags around 4 a.m. He paid with a $100 bill that also appeared to be bloodstained, they said, and drove off in a pickup.
Deputies found a man that matched his description, but the man fled. Sheddrick Bentley was arrested after a second search.
Bentley told officers that Brightman attacked him with a knife near a trash bin and he fought back in self defense. Bentley had cuts on his hands, but they didn't appear to be defense injuries, authorities said.
Inside the trash bin was a pair of bloody sneakers that matched the footprints at Wal Mart and in front of the house of a witness, who said she saw Bentley and Brightman fighting.
Detectives also found a white Dodge pickup that had blood on it parked at a Comfort Inn about two miles from the trash bin.
Albert Bentley was a running back on the University of Miami's 1983 national title team and later played in the NFL from 1985-92 with the Colts and Pittsburgh Steelers.
reminds me of this: Guy tries to buy bolt cutters from Walmart with handcuffs on
Posted on Mon, Feb. 09, 2004
MAGNOLIA, Ark. - James Cotton looked just like any other Wal-Mart customer buying a bolt cutter at 4:30 in the morning - until the cashier noticed that Cotton was wearing handcuffs.
According to police, the clerk took Cotton's money, gave him the bolt cutter, then called officers. Cotton was caught minutes later Saturday, after he had gone into the bathroom and cut off the handcuffs.
Cotton had been arrested the night before by the Haynesville, La., police on charges of battery and possession of a narcotic, but he kicked out a window in a police car and fled, authorities said.
