Man Fights Off Stalker Who Wanted To Keep His Body 'All To Himself' In Closet

An 18-year-old Florida man was arrested for allegedly attacking a jogger as part of his “calculated” plan to kill him, authorities said. The victim managed to free himself and held the aggressor down until cops arrived.

Logan William Smith planned the Monday attack on the jogger near his Brevard County home. He had a bedsheet laid out in his driveway and was armed with a rubber mallet and Axe aerosol spray. He then hid behind a light pole and waited for his victim to pass by, according to WESH 2 News.

Smith charged at the unsuspecting jogger as he passed by and tied a belt from a robe over the victim’s head. He pulled the belt tight for “several seconds which caused visible physical injury,” authorities said.

The victim was able to break free by using his martial arts training and held Smith down until cops arrived. While speaking to deputies, the jogger said he normally runs about four times every week and had never met Smith before. He was “jogging with his earphones in listening to music” when he realized he was being ambushed “out of nowhere,” the deputy report said.

Smith told cops he would have kept the victim's body “all to himself” to fulfill his sexual fantasies if the jogger hadn't successfully foiled his plan.

Law enforcement officials arrested Smith and discovered that he made a “calculated” plot to kill the jogger and drag him all the way to his house using the bedsheet, NBC 6 reported. Smith also told them he planned on using the mallet to strike the victim while the Axe aerosol spray was meant to blind him.

“He further planned to place the victim’s body into his closet where the defendant stated no one would know and the defendant could have the victim’s body all to himself,” Deputy Carson Hendren wrote in the arrest report.

The report also said that the assailant had been watching the jogger ever since he first saw him about six weeks back. He also told cops he saw a movie with violent acts of murder before the attack and said he was unlucky because the jogger was able to overpower him.

Smith was charged with attempted murder following the incident.