'I told you I was going to do it': Man fatally stabbed group home employee after threatening to kill him, police say

A Minnesota antheral allegedly stabbed a idiosyncratic astatine the radical location wherever helium was surviving aft making a decease threat.

Luke McLane, 33, is successful custody astatine the Stearns County Jail aft being charged with second-degree execution and battle with a unsafe weapon. According to a transgression ailment obtained by section quality outlet Star Tribune, McLane allegedly made verbal threats toward 30-year-old Glapoujay Garmondeh, who was an worker astatine the St. Luke Home successful Cold Spring, Minnesota.

Officers from the Cold Spring Police Department responded to the home astir 8:30 p.m. connected Saturday aft receiving calls astir a stabbing.

When constabulary arrived, they recovered Garmondeh connected the crushed extracurricular with a stab coiled to the neck. He was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

According to reporting connected the transgression ailment by section ABC affiliate KSTP, witnesses astatine the radical location told constabulary that they saw McLane chasing Garmondeh. After McLane got connected apical of Garmondeh, helium yelled astatine him, "I'm going to termination you."

Local NBC affiliate KARE reported that constabulary arrived at the extremity of the attack and saw McLane with humor connected his clothes, holding a knife. Police said they heard McLane accidental to Garmondeh, "I told you I was gonna bash it." McLane was arrested and booked into the Stearns County Jail, wherever helium is being held without bail. His adjacent tribunal day was not instantly available.

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The St. Luke Home is tally by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. Cloud, which released a connection identifying Garmondeh arsenic 1 of its employees. In the connection obtained by the Star Tribune, the organization's president and CEO Aaron Fisk wrote that the victim's colleagues were "deeply saddened by the tragic incidental that resulted successful the nonaccomplishment of beingness of an worker astatine our Cold Spring radical home. Our hearts are with the individual's family, loved ones, and each those impacted by this loss."