Details scarce in murder investigation
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POLSON — A teen suspected of killing his mother’s boyfriend on the morning of Nov. 27 remains in custody at the Lake County Jail.
As of press time, formal District Court charges had yet to be filed against Aaron Jess Spang, 18, in the alleged stabbing death of Frank He Does It.
Search warrant documents filed with the Lake County District Court clerk’s office did shed some light onto the case.
When Polson police officers arrived on scene at the D Street apartment, the documents said, they heard yelling from within and heard the front door unlock. Out stepped Spang, his face and hands covered with blood, the documents read. After handcuffing Spang, entering the home and securing the premises, the officers headed to the back bedroom, where they found the motionless He Does It lying facedown on the ground.
When the officers rolled the 32-year-old victim over, he “displayed obvious signs of morbidity,” the document reads. Once a Polson Ambulance crew arrived they hooked him “up to a cardiac monitor and pronounced him deceased.”
A witness, a friend of Spang’s, told detectives during a subsequent interview that the two had been out and returned to the residence. The friend said Spang entered the back bedroom and started hitting He Does It before he saw Spang retreat to the kitchen, “get a knife and go back into the room where Hedoesit [sic] was.”
The subsequent search later that day recovered a “large silver kitchen knife, bedroom door with knife holes in it, bi-fold closet door with knife holes in it” and nine total marijuana plants.
Three cellular phones were taken into evidence as well.
During Spang’s initial appearance in Justice Court last Monday, Deputy Lake County Attorney Mark Russell said the victim had suffered eight stab wounds and the weapon used in the alleged crime was a 9-inch butcher knife.
If convicted of deliberate homicide, Spang faces a $50,000 fine and 100 years or life in prison. As of press time, Spang was not on the calendar for arraignment in District Court this week.