A 49-year-old man has been arrested for stabbing his 73-year-old father to death before invading a nearby home, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department.

Sheriff John Ledbetter said deputies responded to a home invasion call on Main Street in the St. Andrews community on Thursday afternoon. Upon arriving, the suspect – later identified as Gerald Joseph Tooker – fled the scene. No victims inside the home were harmed.

Deputies and investigators then tracked Tooker to his home, where they found the body of his deceased father, Gerald Fay Tooker, lying on the floor from what appeared to be stab wounds. The younger Tooker was located in a rear bedroom of the home and taken into custody without incident.

He was transported to the Jackson County Adult Detention Center and charged w

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