A man in Indiana was taken into custody on Dec. 20 after he allegedly murdered and dismembered his father believing he was a robot.
Shawn Hays, 53, was arrested after authorities responded to a welfare check relating to Hays’s 73-year-old father Rodney Hays, according to a report citing a probable cause affidavit.
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Police had been told by a person appearing to be Hays that he had shot and dismembered his father because the 73-year-old had become a robot.
Arriving on the scene, Hays was “hastily attempting to exit the property in a silver Chevrolet pickup.”
Officers removed a shotgun from the vehicle, and Hays explained that he had not killed a human. Instead, he had destroyed a robot resembling his father.
“It’s a robot that looks like a human … laying over there,” he told authorities. “I had to shoot at it to destroy it.”
Prior to the incident, Hays had reportedly posted on Facebook about his father being a robot.
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The body of Rodney Hays was found to have been shot in the head and chest and subsequently mutilated.
Hays faces at least 10 charges, including murder, domestic battery, abuse of a corpse, and aggravated battery.
