MIAMI — A southwest Florida man put his dead neighbor in the bed of his pickup truck and drove — bloody and agitated — to his lawyer's office, where he said he had killed the man in self-defense.
John Marshall, 52, showed up Wednesday afternoon, his attorney, Robert Harris, said. "He was clearly undergoing something," Harris said, noting that he was bleeding and flustered.
Harris said he brought Marshall into the office, and that's when he said the man's body was in the truck parked outside. Harris called 911.
"It appears to be a clear cut case of self-defense," Harris told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Lee County Sheriff's spokesman Tony Schall said the agency is investigating. He would not say whether any charges are pending or give other details. He said only that an investigation is underway.
Officials identified the dead man as Theodore Hubbell Jr., 65.
Marshall lives in Cape Coral, near Fort Myers, and had purchased property off a dirt road in a rural neighborhood called Bokeelia, Harris said.
Marshall and his wife planned to build a house and had built a shed on the property, and they kept a camper there, Harris said. The neighbor didn't want Marshall to build in the rural area, Harris said.
