The Stephen Webber Case: A Beheading in America

 

 

Ricky Leer's mug shot (Sarasota County Sheriff's Office)

 

 

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Updated Thursday, 5 January 2012, 11:48 a.m. CST
Thursday, 5 January 2012, 10:50 a.m. CST

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SARASOTA (NewsCore) - A homeless Florida man was decapitated in a spat over spilled barbecue food.

 

Stephen Webber, 53, was barbecuing steaks and drinking rum with two other homeless men in a wooded area in Sarasota when he knocked the grill over, enraging Ricky Leer.

 

Leer, 48, grabbed a machete -- and began chopping at Webber's head and "would not let him up."

 

The third man fled the murder scene early Tuesday and called 911, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported.

 

Authorities found Leer near the crime scene, leaning against a tree drinking rum.

He was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder.