The U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service has arrested a 46-year-old Florida fisherman who allegedly attacked his captain with a knife and a pellet gun.
On September 27, fisherman Robert Odom was working aboard a commercial fishing vessel in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, about 25 nm off the Florida Panhandle. According to a crewmate who provided testimony to a CGIS investigating officer, Odom developed the impression that the captain and the crewmate were planning to kill him. Odom climbed up onto the top of the wheelhouse, and when the master went up to confront him, he allegedly shot the master in the chest with a pellet gun. Odom allegedly proceeded to cut the master twice with a large knife, resulting in profuse bleeding.
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