Mobile County authorities have arrested a man accused of horrifically torturing his father to death for several days at his Uriah home.
Neighbors of Zachary Hobbs were left in disbelief after learning that the quiet man who always kept to himself perpetrated atrocious torture on his own father.
Police said that Hobbs showed up on Sept. 8 at Charles Douglas Hobbs’ residence and taped the man to a chair.
For days, he kept “sticking screws under his fingernails” and “took a soldering iron and burned his arms and legs, stabbed him with sharp objects, needles under his fingernails and on his arms and different parts of his body,” Tom Boatwright, the Monroe County Sheriff, said.
On Friday evening, as Hobbs left his father’s home, he reportedly kicked over the chair with his dad still taped to it. The victim managed to free himself and call 911 but later succumbed to the injuries at a local hospital.
Charles Hobbs’ neighbors described him as “the nicest man in this tight-knit community.” His son is now facing premeditated murder, kidnapping, and assault charges.
