Police: Naked man beat delivery driver to death with piece of firewood

FORT WORTH, Texas (WFAA) – Police in Fort Worth, Texas, say a 51-year-old delivery driver was beaten to death by a naked man.

He was doing his job, investigators say, when the man killed him with the firewood he was delivering.

To friends, the victim Scott Jackson was generous and reliable. He was also a doting grandfather and the kind of dad who danced to make his daughter blush.

“I’d be like, ‘Dad, you’re so embarrassing,’ and I wish I could just tell him that so bad. Just embarrass me one more time. Annoy me one more time. Just bug me,” Jackson’s daughter, Kasey DeLeon, said.

Balloons and a picture now rest in the yard where her father died.

Jackson was delivering firewood Saturday to a man, who asked to remain anonymous.

“As we were loading up the wheelbarrow, this random guy shows up and gets directly in my face and confronts me and accuses me of being on his property, being in his house, and he never wants to see us again,” the man recalled.

He said they asked the naked man, later identified by police as Chrisantus Omondi, to leave so they could all get out of the cold.

According to an arrest warrant, that’s when the 27-year-old grabbed a piece of firewood and hit Jackson in the head before turning toward the other man.

“When he was pursuing me and attacking me, I was looking at death in the face,” the witness described.

He escaped and called 911.

Court documents indicate Omondi returned to an Airbnb down the street, where he’d rented a single room.

A tenant staying in a different room told police Omondi, still naked and yelling threats, then tried to force his way into her room.

Police arrived and say they used a Taser on the 27-year-old after he refused to follow their commands.

“He took somebody that I’ll never be able to call. I’ll never to be able to see again, and I just want my dad to get the justice that he deserves because he went out in a very bad way,” DeLeon added.

DeLeon says she’s torn over how harsh the penalty should be. She wants to forgive, she says, but she’s not there yet.

Omondi is now facing murder charges. He’s in jail on a $300,000 dollar bond.

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