Man who called 911 to report his 81-year-old father being shot dead used his credit cards after killing him: Deputies

A antheral successful Texas is accused of gunning down his father, calling 911 to study the older man's death, and past utilizing the victim's recognition cards — each without admitting to the killing.

Justin Blount, 38, has been charged with murder successful the decease of his father, 81-year-old James Raymond Blount, arsenic good arsenic recognition oregon debit paper maltreatment against an aged individual, according to jailhouse records reviewed by Law&Crime. The suspect was booked into the Montgomery County Jail connected Monday.

On Monday astatine astir 8 a.m., deputies said, Justin Blount called 911 to study that helium had recovered his begetter dormant wrong the older man's location connected Trails End Road successful Conroe, Texas. The metropolis is the region spot of Montgomery County and lies astir 40 miles northbound of Houston.

According to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the location to find James "Mr. Jim" Blount suffering from "an evident gunshot wound." He was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

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The sheriff's bureau launched an investigation, learning that Justin Blount had seemingly utilized his father's recognition cards "without authorization." Deputies said that arsenic the probe progressed, "evidence indicated that helium not lone utilized the victim's fiscal resources, but is besides liable for his murder."

Detectives reportedly recovered grounds tying the lad to his father's killing, though they did not authorities what this grounds was.

James Blount was remembered by his friends arsenic a passionate horseman, good respected successful his community.

"This is genuinely a singular antheral that we lost," his person Linda Young told Houston NBC affiliate KPRC. "Jim was 1 of the nicest radical you would ever meet. He would springiness you the garment disconnected his back. To person this benignant of insanity done to him is conscionable shocking."