WEST PALM BEACH — In closed-circuit TV footage, a man covered in blood pounded on a stranger’s door and begged for help . A second man, also bloodied, appeared behind him and dragged him out of the camera’s view, ignoring his screams of “No, no, no!”
Investigators say Stefan Leon, a 32-year-old artist and life coach who teaches meditation, breathwork and emotional intelligence, stabbed 68-year-old spiritual healer Julio Rivera five times with a chef’s knife during a three-day stay in an Airbnb in Boynton Beach .
Police arrived on Oct. 5 to find Rivera struggling to restrain Leon in a yard near the home, both men “covered entirely with each other’s fresh blood.” According to his arrest report, Leon redirected his assault from Rivera to the police and insisted he was “a demon, God himself and Hitler.”
The officers tased Leon in the back and handcuffed him before bringing both men to Delray Medical Center. They booked Leon into the Palm Beach County Jail on charges of attempted murder soon afterward.