“I will chop off your head”: Homeless man arrested for threatening man with axe
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Darrell Lamar Coaxum, 52, was arrested yesterday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, burglary of a dwelling, and grand theft from a dwelling after allegedly breaking into a tent, stealing items, and threatening the tent’s owner with an axe.
The victim said that on June 19 at about 5:20 p.m., he was returning to his tent in the wooded area near 1200 NE Waldo Road and saw Coaxum cutting open his tent, which had been secured with a padlock, and removing items from the tent. When the victim yelled at Coaxum, Coaxum allegedly reached into his truck and pulled out a small axe, then walked toward the victim, brandishing the axe, and said, “If you get any closer, I will chop off your head.”
Coaxum allegedly put the victim’s backpack and a suitcase containing many personal possessions, including a tablet and cell phone, into his truck, then destroyed the victim’s tent with a box cutter before fleeing in his truck.
Coaxum was arrested yesterday in the 400 block of NE 11th Street.
Coaxum has one felony conviction for attempted robbery and one misdemeanor conviction for petit theft. He has an active warrant out of Georgia. Judge Thomas Jaworski set bail at $15,000.
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What a desperate scumbag. A legit waste of space.
WTF does GPD allow tents there? That’s a vacant lot owned by Walmart, for sale. Walmart should get the campers removed before an armed mental illness incident in the store happens someday.
There has already been a murder in that or a dead body found in the area late last year!
San Francisco here we come!….right back where the liberal lunatics begun all this BS. Grace is the place for the helpful decapitating man.
If you are a homeless man with a truck then you are kinda like a “high class” homeless person…everyone knows that it’s a disgusting thing for a high-class homeless to be stealing from the low-class, real homeless. Hope this guy gets the book thrown at him.
There’s an active warrant in Georgia. Give him a one-way ticket and send him there.
this story would have a better out come on July 1st if you know
then you know
Chop off a couple of fingers and return him to Georgia on his warrant.