Police: Man with gun to head tells officers he shot someone

Source: Associated Press


Updated 3:21 pm, Tuesday, April 10, 2018

TRAVELERS REST, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man found pointing a gun at his head in the parking lot of a South Carolina restaurant led to them finding a body at a North Carolina home.

Travelers Rest, South Carolina, police said in a report that officers were able to get 45-year-old Jason Butler to put down the gun around 8:20 p.m. Monday. Butler told police he had shot a man at his North Carolina home.

Authorities say they went to Butler's home in Forest City, North Carolina, and found the body of 49-year-old Michael Splawn.

Butler's wife told police her husband was on medication and had been getting more aggressive and delirious in recent days.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Police-Man-with-gun-to-head-tells-officers-he-12822355.php

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Jason Butler appears in bond court

Sheriff: Man arrested after putting gun to head at Upstate Chick-fil-A charged with murder in Rutherford County
Posted: Apr 09, 2018 7:35 PM CDT
Updated: Apr 10, 2018 5:13 PM CDT
By Sierra Hancock
and Dal Kalsi

TRAVELERS REST, SC (FOX Carolina) -
The Rutherford County Sheriff's Office has charged a man with murder after they said he confessed to the killing when Travelers Rest police found him holding a gun to his head in the Chick-fil-A drive-thru.

Travelers Rest police Chief Lance Crowe said officers responded to the Chick-fil-A on Benton Road Monday around 7:30 p.m. for a disturbance between a man and a woman in the drive-thru. When officers arrived they discovered a man holding a gun to his head. The chief said the man told police he felt guilty about a crime he committed in North Carolina.

Officers were able to talk the man out of the car and both he and the woman were taken into custody.

North Carolina authorities were notified of the situation and began investigating the man's claims.

More:
http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/37915713/chief-sc-nc-law-enforcement-investigating-claims-made-by-man-holding-gun-to-head-in-chick-fil-a-drive-thru