Son Charged For Slashing Mother’s Throat In North Santa Rosa

October 3, 2008

An 86-year old North Santa Rosa County woman was found dead Tuesday, and her son was charged with her murder on Thursday.

The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’ Department says Bonnie Lewis was found dead, slumped over a chair, in her home on Lewis Road, just east of the intersection of Highway 4 and Highway 87 in the Berrydale community.

Lewis was found about 8:30 Tuesday night by a family member. Authorities are not releasing any more details in the ongoing death investigation.

lewismug.jpgHer son, David J. Lewis (pictured left), was arrested late Wednesday afternoon on unrelated outstanding warrants and then charged with murder on Thursday. He told deputies that he slashed his mother’s throat with a knife. Lewis, 56, was being held without bond a first degree murder charge.

The outstanding warrants were in connection with a September 10 incident unrelated to the murder.  He faces a felony charge of fleeing and eluding law enforcement officers at a high speed and a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest without violence. Those charges stemmed from Lewis reportedly fleeing when a deputy attempted to stop him for a suspected DUI offense in Milton.

A half dozen deputies spent about an hour searching David Lewis’ trailer for about an hour Wednesday morning, but deputies did not release any details about the search.

Comments

2 Responses to “Son Charged For Slashing Mother’s Throat In North Santa Rosa”

  1. CINDY PEEBLES on October 6th, 2008 2:47 pm

    IT IS SAD THAT SOMEONE COULD DO THAT KIND OF THING TO SOMEONE .THEY NEED TO PUT HIM IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR AND NOT WASTED TAXERS MONEY ON A TRAIL

  2. Beegee on October 4th, 2008 11:37 pm

    Very sad….why would an old woman need to die this way?

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