Associated Press
FORT MYERS, Fla. — A southwest Florida man put his dead neighbor in the bed of his pickup truck and drove to his lawyer’s office claiming he’d killed the man in self-defense.
Lee County Sheriff’s spokesman Tony Schall said Thursday the agency is investigating but that John Marshall, 52, has not been arrested.
Marshall’s attorney Robert Harris told the News-Press of Fort Myers that his client showed up Wednesday afternoon at his office in Fort Myers around 4 p.m., saying he didn’t know who else to trust.
Attorneys called 911 and Marshall spent hours at Harris’ office before finally leaving for the hospital around 10:30 p.m. His injuries included a swollen lip, missing tooth and what appeared to be two broken thumbs, according to the attorney.
Harris said Marshall told him he wrestled a gun away from neighbor Ted Hubbell in self-defense in nearby Bokeelia before fatally shooting him during a scuffle earlier Wednesday. The two men had apparently been in a dispute over property work. Marshall had called his attorney days earlier and had been advised to get a restraining order.
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