'That's the bad part … It was a machete': Man admits to swiping blade at mother battling cancer on motorcycle, authorities say

New details person emerged successful the lawsuit of an Ohio antheral accused of wildly swinging a machete astatine a pistillate connected the backmost of a motorcycle pursuing his tribunal quality connected Wednesday.

Kenneth Wayne Brabant, 59, "became emotional" and was "upset and apologetic" erstwhile helium learned 41-year-old Leigha Huff died, Preble County Sheriff's Office Captain Shane Hatfield testified successful court, per Dayton CBS affiliate WHIO.

He was truthful repentant, investigators said, that helium reportedly drew a representation for deputies to find the machete successful the woods down his location aft helium had initially cleaned the humor disconnected of it and hid it.

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Law&Crime previously reported that Brabant was charged with murder, tampering with evidence, and battle successful the case. It was the nighttime of June 22 erstwhile Huff was riding connected the backmost of a motorcycle with different antheral connected Upper Somers Road successful Camden. Around the aforesaid time, Brabant's daughter, who has not been named, called 911.

"My ex is moving up and down the roadworthy connected his motorcycle, revving it up, trying to get my dada to travel out," she said, according to audio obtained by WHIO. "My dada is outside."

Minutes later, Huff and the antheral she was riding with drove down the acheronian street. Suddenly, Huff was struck successful the limb with thing – aboriginal revealed to beryllium a machete. "Oh my god, I'm hit, I'm hit," the antheral she was with quoted her arsenic saying.

Before exigency aesculapian services were capable to attraction for Huff, she bled out, authorities said. It is unclear if an ex-boyfriend of Brabant's girl was really adjacent that night. Authorities said neither Huff nor the antheral she was with knew Brabant oregon his daughter.

In tribunal connected Wednesday, Hatfield shined further airy into what transpired aft Huff's death. When helium interviewed Brabant, the fishy reportedly became apologetic and admitted to striking her with the machete.

"He [had] seen the motorcycle coming and helium swung," Hatfield said, per Cincinnati NBC affiliate WLWT. "So I asked him what helium swung. He said, 'that's the atrocious part.' So what was it? He said it was a machete."

The outlet reported that Huff is being remembered arsenic a azygous parent who was warring a agelong conflict with cancer. "She was a precise fantastic person, precise charismatic," said Jeremy Tucker, a person of Huff, according to Dayton NBC affiliate WDTN. "She loved unrecorded euphony and worldly similar that."

"It was ever coming backmost and going away," Tucker added to WLWT astir the cancer. "She ever survived done that and raised her lad similar an awesome parent would."

Brabant is said to beryllium expected to look successful communal pleas tribunal successful the coming weeks.