An Arkansas father was arrested on charges that he shot and killed the claimed stalker of his teenage daughter, who he found with her after she went missing on Tuesday.
The 36-year-old Aaron Spencer called the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office to report his 14-year-old daughter missing earlier that same day.
But before they got there, Spencer found his daughter in a car with 67-year-old Michael Fosler. The sheriff says the argument turned deadly.
According to Spencer’s wife Heather Spencer, this wasn’t the first time the family had seen Fosler. They had a “no contact order” against him.
The teen’s mom said on Facebook that the older guy had followed them around and raped their child over the summer, and they were afraid that he would kill her if he got the chance.
Lonoke County Sheriff John Staley told USA Today that Folser was arrested in July for sexual assault and stalking a kid on the internet by a different police agency. He was released on bond.
Fosler got in touch with their daughter again, but neither parent knew about it.
The father of the girl found the alleged predator with his daughter and got into a heated argument with the man. The two men then reportedly shot and killed Fosler, according to the sheriff’s office.
When officers got to the first call, they changed their minds and arrested Aaron Spencer on a “preliminary charge” of first-degree murder. He was caught and taken to the Lonoke County Detention Center. The next day, he posted bail and was freed.
Staley said that the charge is not official and that it is up to the local district attorney to decide if the worried dad will be charged.
But his wife said the sheriff’s office wasn’t taking care with the case.
“There are some things we’ll never know, but we do know that the police gave this predator privacy that they didn’t give our family.” Putting our home address on the post. This is how the county sheriff’s office handled it, and it hurts me a lot, Heather Spencer wrote on Facebook.
“In the end, our daughter is a victim, and it will take a long time for everyone to get better.” “Thank you so much for all the calls, texts, and prayers.”
Officer John Staley said in a Facebook video that Aaron has not yet been officially charged.
Staley told USA Today, “I do not support predators at all.”
“I have a child.” I’ve got three girls. There’s no one I would put before our children, their children, or my children. I know she’s hurt right now.
The deputies are still looking into what happened before the killing. He said that the goal of the “fact-finding” is to find any real reasons for the murder.
At the same time, Heather Spencer has set up her Venmo and CashApp accounts to accept donations for her husband’s legal bills.
It was her idea to start a GoFundMe, but it has since been taken down because the website’s rules say that fundraisers can’t raise money for the legal defense of someone who is accused of a violent crime.
“We’re so glad to have my husband home with us for now. He’s a hero.” Heather Spencer wrote on Facebook, “We want to do everything we can to make sure he can stay here to protect us.”
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