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Left: David Gipson mug shot. Right: Gipson aft his apprehension (Washington County Sheriff’s Office).
Florida authorities arrested a 40-year-old antheral aft they accidental helium bushed a 74-year-old pistillate to decease and kidnapped and raped different pistillate earlier helium stuffed her successful a ample toolbox wrong a shed.
The horrifying ordeal began astir 10 p.m. connected Sunday erstwhile the suspect, David Earl Gipson, knocked connected the victims’ door, Washington County Sheriff Kevin Crews said astatine a press conference. The surviving unfortunate answered and Gipson allegedly told her that her hubby and brother-in-law were “thieves” and owed him money, and helium was coming to get it.
Gipson, who has a “trust nary b—” tattoo blazoned crossed his chest, past allegedly entered the location and started taking items. Crews said Gipson past started beating up the woman, striking her connected and astir her caput earlier handcuffing her and stripping disconnected her clothes. Gipson past allegedly turned his attraction to the woman’s 74-year-old mother-in-law, Lettie Cooper Collins. He started punching her arsenic well, cops allege.
According to the sheriff, the past clip the unfortunate saw her mother-in-law alive, her eyes were swollen unopen and her look covered successful blood.
Gipson allegedly kidnapped the younger victim, duct taped her rima unopen and threw her successful Collins’ PT Cruiser earlier driving off. He past drove her to his house, wherever helium sexually assaulted her and threatened to termination her, constabulary said. Following the alleged assault, the suspect took her to a shed successful the backmost of his spot and forced her wrong a ample toolbox. Gipson closed the container and enactment plywood and different debris connected apical to support her inside, Crews said.
“She was naked,” Crews explained. “Still handcuffed and duct-taped astir her mouth. He enactment a enactment implicit her cervix and tucked her legs up underneath her. If you tin representation what a hog necktie looks like, that’s what helium did to her. She stated she got precise blistery and thought she was going to suffocate and die.”
Deputies judge she was trapped successful the toolbox for astir of Monday earlier she was capable to get her feet nether her and propulsion it ajar.
“She got retired of the shed and past ran for her life,” the sheriff said.
While inactive handcuffed, she utilized a histrion to propulsion down the duct portion from her rima earlier moving to a adjacent roadworthy wherever she flagged down a motorist who helped her get into his car and gave her a blanket, per Crews. Deputies responded astir 5:20 p.m. connected Monday to Douglas Ferry Road, wherever they came to the assistance of the woman.
She explained the terrifying acquisition and told them to cheque connected her mother-in-law. When deputies arrived astatine the home, they recovered Collins dead.
“She was beaten to a pulp,” said Crews.
The aesculapian examiner volition find an authoritative origin and mode of death, helium said. Deputies arrested Gipson soon aft 1 p.m. connected Tuesday.
He stands accused of kidnapping, intersexual battle and aggravated battery. It’s unclear if he’s been charged yet with Collins’ murder. He is astatine the Washington County Jail without bond. He’s adjacent scheduled to look successful tribunal connected June 2.
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