New details in Round Rock murder – FOX 7 Austin

New details in Round Rock murder  FOX 7 Austin

New court paperwork has revealed details about a murder in Round Rock on Labor Day.26-year-old Benedict Chinedu Ogbodiegwu has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of 62-year-old Andrew James Wimsatt on Sept. 7.PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Round Rock murder believed to be random act; man arrested: sheriffAn arrest affidavit filed on Sept. 9 outlines what led to Ogbodiegwu's arrest.The affidavit says that a woman had reported finding Wimsatt's body at around 11:15 a.m. Sept. 7 in a park in the 2400 block of Chandler Creek Boulevard, near Double File Trail Elementary. The woman told law enforcement she had found him near a park bench with significant injuries and called 911.Video footage obtained from the neighborhood HOA showed a white man in a button-down shirt and dark shorts sitting on the bench at about 10:55 a.m.

that morning. A couple of minutes later, a black man with a knife in his hand is seen coming up behind the other man, later identified as Wimsatt, and beginning to stab him in the neck while wrapping his other arm around him. Wimsatt is seen on video attempting to push the man off, but is unable to.Wimsatt was stabbed several more times and left on the ground when the suspect wiped the blade on his shift and ran from the scene towards the pool