so his his bone he said his hand was his
arm was dangling Holding On by flesh did
he say like why he didn't want to stay
on scene if his friend was just it he
didn't act like he even knew who it was
it didn't just strike your dad it rolled
over your dad it backed over your dad
and then it went over your dad again
this is it it is this is it yeah who
drove it I don't know whatever you do
don't don't touch don't touch anything
on Veterans Day 2023 three an elderly
man is found barely clinging to life
after a brutal hidden run in the parking
lot of a bar as panel's County deputies
race to track down the vehicle that fled
the scene chilling new details come to
light sending investigators toward a
horrifying
realization this getting worse and worse
well I mean it can't get any worse your
dad's dead the following report is based
on official police records and most of
the footage has never been seen before
until now just before 9:00 p.m. on
November 11th 2023 pellis County
deputies arrive at the R Bar in Treasure
Island Florida where they survey the
aftermath of a brutal hit-and run
incident the victim 86-year-old veteran
Thomas Tom Macau was rushed to the
hospital with life-threatening injuries
that's skin right there that's going to
be bone there I don't know bone sticking
well so his his bone he said his hand
was his arm was dangling Holding On by
flesh I mean it I don't think those are
going to be from his shoes those look
like bone but the watch is pretty messed
up yeah but the watch so that's what
doesn't so that going goes that way and
then this one goes this way that's what
throws me off can you guys go interview
them before they close up and have to
leave so that being said um sure he was
flat on his back head this way body that
I already got all right gotcha there's
his hearing aid right there yeah he's an
older dude Tom's belong are scattered
across the scene including a broken
watch a hat sandals and a hearing aid
reports note that gouge marks in the
asphalt suggest Tom had been dragged
Witnesses claimed to see a vehicle
possibly a black pickup truck leaving
the scene the key fob to a ram was found
among Tom's belongings but the truck was
nowhere to be found deputies head inside
to speak with bar employees who
explained Tom had not been alone in the
bar that night this guy is the guy that
they were saying it was with him I know
it's the back of him but they the same
the same shirts on they just came
celebrating at the legion before they
came here they said they just left the
legion okay the image shown to deputies
depicts a white male wearing a white
longsleeve shirt blue shorts and brown
sandals he appears to have dark colored
hair and a balding head but the photo
was taken from behind showing only his
back the bartender who served the two
men shares critical information with
deputies Tom I believe has a residence
here cuz he's here for five six months
every year okay um the other guy like I
said I don't don't know him but they
were together they were paying for
everything together so okay uh did he
seem like a local or did he seem like
he's the other guy um I mean he didn't
have like a real hard accent or anything
I mean I don't know if he was a snowbird
too but uh he seemed pretty familiar as
deputies continue to gather details at
the scene one heads to the hospital to
meet with Tom's son 61-year-old Mark
maau who's just learned that his father
did not survive the incident we've been
out all afternoon what time did you get
here today we got in about 11:30 this
morning you drove we drove from Michigan
left at 5:00 got here at 11:30 18 and
half hours it's average 18 and A2 yeah
wow that's a long drive Mark explained
that Tom owned a business hauling and
fixing damaged boats which Mark now
manages and confirms his father's plan
was to stay in Treasure Island until the
spring as their conversation continues
details about what they did next leads
deputies toward w a grim realization so
anyways we got here got unloaded he got
things kind of half squared away he was
all geeked excited right then we went
out decided we'd try the American Legion
in medier Beach okay one of my favorite
when John's F went there had a few
drinks talked he talked to some people
and then we went over to the one in
Treasure Island we sat there head few
drinks some we decid to go to the you
want to go to the Y Bar that's his
favorite place to go we went in there
had a few
drinks and then we were going to leave
and go back to the other Treasure Island
and one across the road and then go home
okay deputies noted a strong odor of
alcohol coming from Mark's breath and
person during their conversation based
on Mark's own account it appears that he
was the one who was earlier seen with
Tom at the bar just before the incident
raising serious questions so when you
were at the AR bar um did you guys leave
together no well no he got up we kind of
drank up he said all right we're leaving
and he was going to go across back to
the Treasure Island or the one across
the street uhhuh and I said all right
the car was
out out here so I said all right I'll
meet you over there mark explains that
when his father didn't show up he
attempted to call him but got no answer
did you call anybody else by any chance
about him at all no then one of my
sisters called me and said they saw
something on Facebook and they got
something about my dad so so something
about your dad on
Facebook yeah did she send like like a
picture of it or anything uh yeah the a
pedest in accident okay why would you
think that was your dad though I why
would she think it was your dad I
remember I mean that's kind of yeah
you're right Mark continues explaining
what happened after he left the bar
without his father I drove around over
across the street waited didn't see him
I I walked in didn't see him so I
started calling I wondering
what then I started to come back and
then there was a police and someone said
hey get out of here there's a crime
scene right you didn't think anything of
it I didn't know so I thought okay I
left I goove back to the condo thinking
looking maybe he start going that way he
didn't what were you is this what you
wore to the bar tonight um I had a wa sh
on I actually took it off cuz it long
sleeve I was hot it's laying on the
table at the condo right if you want to
take me back you can welcome to see it
right um and the truck it's there okay
ke um so my sister called an Uber said
here I I'm calling an Uber call a truck
there she said why don't you take an
Uber to the hospital okay Mark provides
the address for his father's Residence
at the Sunset Cove Condominiums where
deputies locate Tom's Black Ram pickup
truck Rock um yeah this is it it is this
is it yeah who drove it I don't know
whatever you do don't don't touch don't
touch anything what's this back
here it's got to be the sun he's the
only one who had access to it damn look
at that that would make sense on why she
didn't he hit something else and this is
recent cuz there's scuff all the
way even the bumper yeah dang it
and right here a closer look at the
truck revealed splatter on the driver's
side Tire and Wheel consistent with
blood and what appears to be human
tissue hanging from the front axle after
learning of the gruesome Discovery the
deputy confronts Mark they went to the
the condo and they looked at the truck
and there's there's some concerning
things underneath the truck on the truck
yeah yeah okay you have any idea what
I'm talking about no not a clue not a
clue all right so um as far as I I don't
think he went through the truck at all
from the ARB bar well I'm not talking
about in the truck I'm talking about
underneath the truck yeah so you know
how your dad was killed right they said
he was hit yeah buy a vehicle and one of
the witnesses that we have from the
scene said it was a black
truck you don't know anything about that
it wasn't me it wasn't wasn't you okay
I'm sure um so the your dad's truck yeah
has um remains underneath it blood skin
things of that
nature
no I know I know that you're telling me
no but I'm telling you that's that's
what we found on the truck okay and you
went and told me that that nobody else
has access to that
vehicle okay so you don't know anything
about how that got there okay your your
your whole demeanor has changed now do
you you recognize that no but I mean I'm
little taking a back that you're saying
there's stuff on the the truck right
right do you think that maybe you were
intoxicated when you were driving away
from
there you been out drinking all day I
had a few yeah but more than
normal probably a little more than
deputies were able to obtain
surveillance footage from the parking
lot at approximately 8:28 p.m. a man
presumed to be Mark exits the bar first
and enters the driver's side of the
truck the second male presumed to be Tom
exits next and walks slowly toward the
vehicle for unknown reasons Tom appears
to fall down in front of the truck as
the headlights go on and is seen lying
directly in front of the truck wheels
the vehicle moves forward and appears to
jump up and down consistent with running
someone over as the deputy describes
what they saw next the conversation with
Mark takes a dark turn we've
got a vehicle leaving the parking lot
and what we think is that that vehicle
struck your dad okay but the problem
that I have is it didn't just strike
your dad okay it rolled over your dad it
backed over your dad and then it went
over your dad
again that's the problem that I have no
way I could have way I'm telling you
that that's what happened right before I
came here there's no way I could have
done that before questioning continues
the deputy reads Mark as Miranda writes
I mean am I under arrest you're being
questioned right now okay okay yeah I
can't I can't believe I hit my head
going away so I
I got do you want to continue with the
interview uh what do you mean continue
well I'm I'm going to continue to ask
you questions I I advised you of your
rights okay so you said you understood
your rights my question you is do you
want to continue with this
interview Uh Oh you mean continue
answering questions get a lawyer I'm
asking you if that's what you want
I don't know my best children says get a
lawyer but I got nothing
to oh I I can't advise you one way or
another I just I can't believe that I
have Mya just like a bad nightmare yeah
so my sergeant gave me some more
information okay and what he uh what he
said what to me was that uh your vehicle
that truck your dad's vehicle um
actually comes back to the scene more
than once earlier in the investigation
two witnesses reported that the man with
Tom now presumed to be Mark returned to
the scene multiple times on foot after
the incident on one occasion a witness
claimed to have directly confronted him
she goes you drive a a black GMC pickup
truck and he looked at her and he said
no and and she looked at me dead in the
face and she said I stared at him
through his windshield I know that's the
guy driving the car that's what the cop
said that's what the lady who called the
cop said did he say like why he didn't
want to stay on scene if his friend was
just dir they didn't he didn't act like
he even knew who it was still Mark
insists he has no memory of the event
this getting worse and worse well I mean
it can't get any worse CU your dad's
dead I mean that's that's as bad as get
you know you're facing your dad you got
your dad in the headlight and you go
around
him like he's just you know another
person laying on the ground like a piece
of garbage laying on the ground drove
around him it's my dad yeah but why
would you do that I you drove around him
I don't remember doing it and didn't get
out of the car to try and help
him I would have got out I get it
totally but I would have got out and
helped him I don't remember but you
didn't get out and help him okay you
were driving that truck you didn't get
out and help
him I'm trying to figure out why you
would hit your dad and then back over
him and then drive over him again were
you angry at him no not at all well that
that seems like a pretty angry thing to
do it's one thing to hit your dad with
the car I mean that's maybe an accident
okay but we're talking about hitting
him backing over him and then driving
over him again did that owe you money no
was he taking too much from the business
no not paying you enough not giving you
enough attention no as far as the
business goes no things have been good I
mean you guys getting an argument on the
way here no none at all no got long
great there's got to be some reason why
you would not only hit your dad but then
back over him and then go over him again
and then come back to watch him die in
the middle of the parking
lot God that's no
I I'm shocked I don't remember doing it
with Mark still struggling with his
memory the deputy consider a new
approach do you want to see it sir
uh no but yes I don't know what that
means I really don't but yeah I want to
see
it I mean it's not you can't see your
dad dying or anything like that it's
just the truck rolling over something
that something happens to be your dad
that's the truck right there that's the
car
bar your dad's already lying on the
ground it's when over it
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again that's that's you backing somebody
backing over your dad see how the truck
jumped a little
bit I do not remember that at all I
don't remember driving around my dad I
would have stopped and tried to help him
I I I get it I know where you're coming
from and I understand I just I
don't I don't know I do have one
question yes ma'am do this might sound
like a random question just humor me do
you know what your resting heart rate is
normally the reason I ask is your watch
as soon as we started talking about all
this your your heart rate jumped up
about 20 to 30 beats per minute did it
I'm shocked like 141 right now that's
pretty that's about where he's been
that's where I was last I was at do last
week and I was 142
over and that's that's your blood press
your heart rate that's your blood
pressure this PR you jumped up to
169 as I was watching the watch it PE my
curiosity yeah no I
don't I'm shocked I'm blown away that I
did it I can't believe I did it I truly
can't having heard enough the deputies
Place him under arrest and inform him
that they will be conducting a forced
blood draw to determine his blood
alcohol content as part of the
investigation the truck sensors were
tested while lying flat on the ground
the sensors remained inactive but when
movement was detected a loud tone
signaled an obstruction the rear camera
was also deemed to be fully functional
inside the truck investigators found CBD
gummies with a few missing from the
container as well as something else of
Interest tucked in the rear passenger
seat pocket he I got a bottle of
liquor what I got a little like 50ml
bottle of liquor little shooter no a
little bigger than that like a little
like a brown bagot B nope it's like half
Mark's blood alcohol level tested at
039 though his blood wasn't drawn until
after his arrest approximately 5 hours
after the initial incident occurred
investigators ultimately concluded that
Mark left the scene of the crash and
impairment was a factor however it
remains unclear whether he intentionally
struck his father with the truck a later
autopsy of 86-year-old Thomas maau
ultimately ruled the cause of death as
blunt trauma and the manner of death was
accidental 61-year-old Mark maau was
officially charged with leaving the
scene of a crash involving death and was
released from jail on a $50,000 Bond the
following April he entered a plea of not
guilty in exchange for a plea deal he
later changed his plea to guilty and was
sentenced to 10 years of probation he
was also ordered to undergo a substance
abuse evaluation and his driver's
license was revoked for a period of
three years