76 yo BSA Scouter of 50 years stabbed to death leading hiking trail
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Boy Scout leader, 76, fatally stabbed on hiking trip
Man stabbed in neck while identifying a tree; 22-year-old suspect
arrested
Image: Shane C. Golitko
Indiana State Police via AP
An undated image provided by thte Indiana State Police shows Shane C.
Golitko, who is being held in connection with the stabbing death of
assistant Boy Scoy leader Arthur Ld. Anderson.
updated 2 hours 29 minutes ago
BUNKER HILL, Ind. — A 76-year-old man has been stabbed to death while
leading Boy Scouts on a hiking trip in northern Indiana, and a suspect
who battered his mother and killed a dog near the trail is under
arrest, police said.
The assistant scout leader, Arthur L. Anderson, had stopped to
identify a tree on the Nickel Plate Trail in Bunker Hill Sunday
afternoon when an attacker approached him from behind and stabbed him
in the neck, Indiana State Police said in a statement. Witnesses told
police the attack was unprovoked.
Anderson of Kokomo, Ind., died at the scene despite the efforts of
medical personnel who responded to a 911 call. Police said he had been
involved in scouting for 50 years.
Officers later arrested Shane C. Golitko, 22, of Bunker Hill, after he
ignored a state trooper's attempted traffic stop and led police on an
eight-mile chase, the Indiana State Police said in a statement.
Police are holding Golitko without bond on a murder charge and two
felony counts of battery at the Miami County Jail.
A minute before the 911 call alerting authorities that Anderson had
been stabbed, Golitko's mother Valerie Henson, called 911 to report
that her son had assaulted her during an altercation at their home,
about 150 yards south of the trail, state police said.
Henson told police that after she fled to a neighbor's house, her son
walked to the trail where Anderson was later stabbed. She said her son
later returned home, smashed up their home and stabbed two dogs,
killing one.
Henson was treated for a broken arm. Police did not say what sparked
the altercation between Henson and Golitko.