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an hours-long search for him. He is accused of killing his boss, William Knight, 28, with a trowel shortly after the two arrived at work, the affidavit shows.
Coworkers who witnessed the killing told authorities Toney and Knight are friends and drove to work together Monday morning.
Shortly after they all began working, about 10:30 a.m., witnesses said they heard Knight yelling for help. When they ran toward him, they saw Toney standing over him as he lay on the ground, Detective Fabian Ramirez wrote in the affidavit. Toney was “repeatedly stabbing him with a trowel,” according to the witnesses.
The witnesses began throwing things at Toney to get him to stop, but he then “began to advance on them with what they thought was a knife,” Ramirez wrote in the affidavit. Toney fled the scene in a vehicle belonging to Lane Construction
Corporation.
The witnesses told investigators Knight and Toney were in an argument on their way to work, “possibly over being anti-government,” Ramirez wrote in the affidavit.
They said the men have opposing political views: Toney is “antigovernment and very outspoken about his beliefs that the government is bad and out to get him” and Knight “is a proud and outspoken American and is pro Donald Trump,” Ramirez wrote.
As Toney drove away after the stabbing, he yelled out to the other employees, calling them “terrorists,” the witnesses alleged.
Next to Knight’s body deputies discovered a brand new American flag, the packaging for which was lying nearby, Ramirez wrote. The witnesses told deputies they had seen Toney carrying a backpack that morning, which they thought was “unusual.”
The job site already had all the tools they needed for work, one witness said.
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