The man cut off his grandfather’s ears after he was stabbed to death and stabbed, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – A man is locked up in Lake County after deputies say he brutally beat and stabbed his grandfather before cutting off the victim’s ears.

Investigators were called Saturday night to a home on Lake Mack Drive in Deland.

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Kolby Allen Parker, 30, told investigators that his grandfather Ronal Wells, 77, attacked him while the couple was smoking marijuana, according to a press release.

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Investigators said that while the man was talking to deputies, he took two human ears out of his pocket, which belonged to the victim. Parker turned violent and attacked deputies, according to the statement, but was eventually detained.

Deputies said they executed a search warrant in the house, finding a bloody baseball bat and a large butcher knife that was also dripping with blood.

Parker confessed to hitting his grandfather with the bat and then stabbing him several times before cutting off the victim’s ears, according to the statement.

Investigators said Parker told them he wanted his grandfather to be with his dead grandmother.

Park is being held without bail and facing battery charges from a police officer, who resisted with violence and second-degree murder.

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