DECATUR COUNTY, Ga. (WTXL) - The Decatur County Sheriff's Office is revealing more details on what led 27-year-old Cameron Slade to attack someone with a bush ax.
On Monday around 5:11 p.m, deputies say they were called to a home Palm Street where the complainant told officials that he saw Slade put a bush ax in the back of his truck. The man said he noticed that the ax had blood and hair on it.
He also stated that when he asked Slade what happened, he ran west behind the house with the bush ax. Eventually he came back, the bush ax now gone, and said he was going to catch a ride Tennessee.
The man told police that Slade then walked across the street to Jamestown Apartments.
When authorities went to investigate, they learned from witnesses that Slade was hiding in a storage closet behind an apartment.
At first, when deputies knocked on the closed closet door, they received no reply. But the door slowly opened, revealing Slade inside.
Authorities handcuffed him and asked him what was going on. Slade told them that the victim had angered him and that he had "lost it". He told them that the incident happened at a home on 187 Mt. Olive Church Road.
The arrest report says officers also asked Slade where he had hidden the bush ax. He told them that he had thrown it into the woods in between Hall and Palmetto streets, where they recovered it.
Slade later told authorities that he had been doing meth for the last three days and "didn't think it was meth".
As Slade was leading authorities to the assault weapon, Decatur County deputies made their way to the house on Mt. Olive Church Road, where they found the victim, 61-year-old John Kyle Hader.
They found the Bainbridge man with multiple wounds to his hand, head and face.
Hader was airlifted to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital and was later transferred to UF Shands in Gainesville for amputations.
There's no an update on his condition for now.
Slade was taken in to the Decatur County Jail where he was charged with aggravated assault and aggravated battery.
A man has been arrested after investigators say he called 911 saying that he killed someone with an ax.
It happened at on Mount Olive Road around 5:30 Monday evening.
Investigators say Cameron Slade called 911 saying he killed someone with an bush ax.
When they got on scene, they found the victim was still breathing and had been hit in the head and arm several times.
The victim was airlifted to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital and was later transferred to UF Shands in Gainesville for amputations.
There's no an update on his condition for now.
Slade was arrested in connection to the incident and was booked into the Decatur County Jail. No bond is listed but he does have a charge of aggravated assault.
Investigators haven't been able to interview Slade yet.
