Son leaves dad to die in bathtub inside burning home: Cops
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Inset: Clinton Hadley (St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office). Background: The 1900 block of Chilton Drive in Baytown, Texas, where Clinton Hadley allegedly set a house on fire with his dad inside (Google Maps).

A Texas man is accused of leaving his father — who was unable to walk — stranded inside of their burning home after setting the place ablaze, with firefighters finding the 73-year-old dead in a bathtub after he attempted to call 911 for help.

“Floyd was able to make a 911 call … in which he advised that his residence was on fire and he could not get out,” says Clinton Hadley’s criminal complaint, which was filed in Harris County on Thursday following his dad Floyd Hadley’s death at their residence on July 21 in the 1900 block of Chilton Drive in Baytown.

The Monday afternoon blaze was allegedly sparked by Clinton Hadley, 40, at around 3:37 p.m. and it broke out within “seconds” of him fleeing, according to video footage from a neighbor’s security camera and police. A gas meter at the home “appeared to be broken or possibly tampered with” upon inspection, the complaint says.

Hadley, who was arrested later in the day, allegedly told authorities he “wanted to burn the house down and get away from his family.” He was nabbed by cops in Louisiana’s Slidell area, around 30 miles from New Orleans, after traveling there and attempting to set fire to a business, police say.

Hadley allegedly has a “documented history of welfare concerns” and incidents, including one that was reported the night before the fire, according to the complaint. His aunt called police for a welfare check after Hadley allegedly started making threatening statements.

“[Hadley] is schizophrenic and was talking about setting the house on fire,” the complaint says, citing his aunt’s 911 call. “[First responders] found the residence engulfed in flames on their arrival.”

Police say security footage from Hadley’s neighbor shows him leaving the burning home and “jumping the perimeter fence” before entering a Toyota Corolla and fleeing. He was arrested in Louisiana after allegedly threatening to burn a building down if an employee inside didn’t give him gas money.

During his police interviews, cops say Hadley admitted to “knowingly and intentionally” setting fire to furniture at his home in Baytown where Floyd Hadley was found dead, per the complaint.

Hadley was booked in Louisiana and charged with remaining in a place after being forbidden, resisting arrest and terrorizing. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office has filed a murder charge against him for the fire and Baytown Police Department officials are working with Louisiana authorities to extradite Hadley to Texas, according to the officials.

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