A woman in Florida was arrested after she confessed to killing her roommate in a rural Charlotte County neighborhood, according to police.
The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office said that 76-year-old Paul De Wayne Bradley was found dead on the evening of Sunday, March 8, at his home on Gewant Boulevard in the Charlotte Ranchettes, according to ABC 7.
Investigators said that the victim’s roommate, 48-year-old Shannon Rose Giblin, admitted to stabbing him after they got into an argument.
Giblin reportedly told detectives that she realized Bradley couldn’t be saved after she attacked him, so she covered his body with a tarp and left the scene in his pickup truck.
She drove the truck to Sarasota County, where deputies with the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office located her and took her into custody. Giblin was then questioned by Charlotte County detectives, and she confessed to the killing.
Following Bradley’s death, Giblin has been charged with second-degree murder and grand theft of a motor vehicle. She is currently being held in jail without bond.
It is not currently clear if Giblin has entered a plea or retained legal representation following her arrest.
Deputies reported to the home after they received a report that a person at the residence was not breathing. They found that Bradley was already dead when they arrived at the home and authorities immediately launched an investigation into the incident.
Detectives collected evidence from both the home and a storage structure on the property, while they also taped off the crime scene so that investigators could document it.
Amid the investigation, detectives asked nearby residents if they had security camera footage that may have captured the home between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. on March 8.
Several of Bradley’s neighbors have been left in shock following the killing. According to neighbor Jody Scharping, Bradley was a kind man and a veteran.
“He went through wars and came back, he survived a heart attack not long ago, and then this is what takes his life. Nobody deserves that,” Scharping told Wink News.
Scharping added that Bradley even acted as a mentor for her son at one point. “He came over one day to talk to me about my son because he was mentoring him for a while, and he was in his underwear on his scooter,” she said. “It reminded me of my dad — just that old veteran who wouldn’t hurt anybody.”
Parker Daigle, Scharping’s son, also worked with Bradley and told the outlet that he was always nice.
“He was a super nice guy. Always bought me lunch. I worked with him a lot. I helped him clean out all the sheds,” Daigle said.
Daigle went on to say that many of Bradley’s neighbors were having a hard time processing his death. “Nobody hated him. He was just a super nice dude. I didn’t think anybody would ever do that to him,” he said.
Bradley’s neighbors said that he had lived at the home with his wife until she died a few years ago. A woman moved into the home to help him around the house, while Scharping said she heard the situation between the two of them had not been going well.
