CAPE SAN BLAS —
Jarrod Powell Slick, 23, is in jail in
Those acts were “imminently dangerous to another” and “evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life” but did not indicate premeditated murder, the filing states. Slick faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted of second-degree murder.
Investigators had responded to a 911 call from Slick and found Coffey unconscious and unresponsive in her home at
Coffey was ruled dead at the scene.
Slick was developed as a suspect after being questioned by investigators.
He already was a suspect in arsons of the Masonic Lodge in Port St. Joe in 2012, but was out on bond, which Coffey secured.
Investigators said they later learned a home security system indicated Slick and Coffey were the lone occupants of the Cape San Blas home at the time of the incident. The system also revealed no indication of a breach of the house or any other person in or around the house during the timeframe of the incident.
Slick told investigators he and his mother left the residence earlier in the day and made several stops in Callaway before returning home, which was confirmed through receipts and in-store video.
Upon returning home, Slick told investigators, he went into the backyard to tend the family dog, remaining there for 30 minutes before going inside. He said he found his mother with “her throat slit and her head bashed in, but I didn’t know she was going to die,” according to Slick’s arrest affidavit.
The home security system, however, showed Slick going inside the residence upon returning home and Coffey following roughly one minute later, according to investigators.
Slick sent a text message to his brother about bringing home a grocery item a few minutes later and was seen leaving the residence, phone in hand and appearing to be in conversation, roughly three minutes prior to the 911 call. The system showed no other individual present.
Investigators said they found what appeared to be blood spatters on Slick’s shoes.