Edmund Clarke Wiki – Edmund Clarke Biography
A Florida man stabbed a man 40 times in the neck, head and torso with scissors inside a convenience store while trying to decapitate him. Edmund Clarke, 36, entered the store with the victim. Clarke worked for his father as a caretaker, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. The incident took place on Monday, September 19, shortly before 7:00 p.m. Video footage of the horrific attack shows Clarke grabbing scissors from a glass near the cash register and lunging at the victim.
Clarke stabbed the victim multiple times before he began grabbing other knives and continued his attack for the next several minutes before police arrived on the scene. The unnamed victim was immediately taken to a hospital where he underwent emergency surgery. He miraculously survived, though his current status is unknown.
Edmund Clarke Age
Edmund Clarke is 75 years old.
Incident Detail
According to the New York Post, the arrest report said that Clarke worked for the victim’s father for about a decade. The duo met sometime before the incident and Clarke told the victim that she was hungry, so they stopped at The Trading Post at the Burst Store Marina. Agents said Clarke and the victim had entered the store together and were ordering food before Clarke began attacking without warning.
A witness claimed that Clarke began experiencing hallucinations while he was accusing someone before launching the assault. He was quickly arrested at the scene and faces a charge of attempted murder. “This heinous crime will not be tolerated in Lee County,” said Sheriff Carmine Marceno. “I am proud of the quick response of our officers who helped save the victim’s life and the hard work of my detectives to get Clarke off the street,” he added.
MEAWW previously reported that Briea Askew, 29, was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a patient, a 21-year-old Jamestown woman with cerebral palsy. According to police, the caregiver left her patient unattended in a hot car. The incident occurred on August 10, 2021. Authorities noted that the woman’s temperature rose to over 110 degrees while she was in the car, which was not air-conditioned. There have been similar incidents involving caregivers in the past.
A five-year-old girl in Georgia, Savannah Adams, was allegedly killed by her caregiver. A 15-month-old girl from North Dakota has died because she was allegedly tortured and sexually abused by her caregiver in November 2021. A four-year-old girl was allegedly “brutally murdered” after suffering “horrible” abuse at the hands of her caregiver in Philadelphia.
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