Edgewater man says he wanted to kill his father so he stabbed him
An Edgewater man told police he was tired of his father abusing him so he stabbed the older man in an attempt to kill him, an arrest report states.
After he was arrested and placed in a holding cell, Charles D. Plough, 41, threatened an officer saying he will cut off her head and desecrate her body, the report states.
Plough was charged with attempted felony murder, and making a threat against a law enforcement officer. He was in the Volusia County Branch Jail Tuesday without bail.
Edgewater police said they were called Monday to a Queen Palm Drive home at 6 a.m. by a neighbor who reported the stabbing.
At the scene, police detained Plough near the neighbor's house. They then went to Plough's home where his father, Charles, T. Plough, 72, was found bleeding from a stab wound to the chest. The older Plough was uncooperative with police and initially refused medical attention but was later taken taken to the hospital bleeding heavily from the chest, the report noted.
The younger Plough told police his father physically abused him and hit him with a shovel on Sunday. He said he finally had enough and wanted to stab his father in the neck to kill him but wounded him in the chest.
Even after his arrest, Plough kept saying he wished his father would die, and said he wanted to be on television for the murder, his arrest report shows.
Charles D. Plough told police that as soon as he got out of jail, he would return to his father's house and burn it down to finish the job, police said.
The neighbor wrote in a statement to police that Charles D. Plough was a danger to society and should not be let out of jail, officers wrote in the report.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Florida man stabbed father in chest wanting to kill him
