Man gouges neighbor’s eyes out over loud rooster

A West Virginia man allegedly gouged out his neighbor’s eyes after an argument over a loud rooster, authorities said.

Richard Wayne Ellison, 47, of the town Rock, has been charged with murder after police said he admitted to killing the rooster and its owner, 72-year-old Benny Foutch, saying “Lucifer made me do it,” according to the Bluefield Daily Telegraph.

Ellison was reportedly irritated by the noise of the crowing rooster so he stormed onto Foutch’s property Sunday, leading to an argument between the neighbors, police told the outlet.

Police believe Ellison at some point killed the rooster before turning on Foutch and gouging out his eyes.

EMS responders arrived at the scene to find Foutch dead on his porch with “blood coming from his orbital sockets,” according to a criminal complaint filed by Detective-Corporal M.S. Horn of the Mercer County Sheriff’s Office.

Ellison allegedly took the dead rooster back home and instructed his son to dispose of it before officers at the sheriff’s office arrived and arrested him later Sunday, according to Horn’s complaint.

“I asked [Ellison] what happened with him and Benny, he then made the hand motion of pressing his thumbs to his eyes,” Horn said. “He advised he went up there to kill the rooster because of a movie he had watched and because it was crowing.

“[Ellison] later explained that he pressed his thumbs into Benny’s eyes, he advised that he stayed there until he knew Benny was dead,” the criminal complaint continued.

“He made the statement that he killed him, referring to the incident with Benny. He made a reference that Lucifer made him do it. He kept asking me to shoot him, that he deserved it. He then talked about getting somebody in the jail to kill him.”

Ellison was arraigned and a judge set a $200,000 cash-only bond.

via: https://nypost.com/2020/05/19/man-gouges-neighbors-eyes-out-over-loud-rooster-sheriff/

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