Third victim dies after rampage

Suspect also charged in Pa. with strangulation

DAVENPORT, FLA. » Authorities said Sunday that a third victim has died following a violent attack where an angry electrician wielding a knife and baseball bat killed three co-workers and injured another at the Florida home they shared.

Polk County Sheriff’s officials said electrician Shaun Runyon got into the argument with his supervisor Friday, punching the man and fleeing the job site. He returned to the Davenport home he where he was temporarily living with his coworkers Saturday and beat one man to death while he slept, killed another man on the front porch and chased another victim into the street, beating him badly with a bat, Sheriff Grady Judd said.

A fourth victim suffered critical injuries and later died at the hospital. Another man, his wife and their daughter, 7, escaped unharmed. Authorities did not release the identifies of the victims.

Runyon and seven coworkers and their families were living at the home rented by J & B Electric, Inc. Phone calls and emails to the company were not returned Sunday.

It’s unclear what prompted the fight between Runyon, 39, and his supervisor Friday, but Sheriff Judd said he confessed.

He was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated battery.

Runyon fled the home, turning up hours later at the home of a random Lake Wales couple, wearing bloody clothes and telling them he’d been raped, according to the sheriff.

Judd said the man discarded his bloody clothes at the home as they urged him to go to the hospital where he was later taken into custody.

Runyon is also charged in Northampton County in eastern Pennsylvania with a felony count of strangulation — applying pressure to the throat — May 21 along with misdemeanor counts of child endangerment, terroristic threat, reckless endangerment and other charges. He was scheduled for formal arraignment and a pretrial conference Oct. 14.

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