FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. – An online altercation led to real-life attempted murder charges after deputies say a New Jersey man flew to Florida, snuck into the home of a person he met online, and attacked him with a hammer in the middle of the night.
“This is a weird one,” Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said during a press conference. “Some things make you say hmmm. Some things you just can’t make up. There are some things that make you say, ‘What in the world was he thinking?’ There are some things that make you say, ‘You’re not going to believe this.’ Well, this case makes you say all four of those.”
Sheriff Leeper says Edward Kang, 20, hopped on a plane from Newark, New Jersey to Jacksonville, Florida, late Friday night.
Upon landing, Kang, according to Leeper, grabbed an Uber and checked into a hotel on Fernandina Beach around 2 a.m. on Saturday.
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