Man accused of poisoning Southern California couple by spraying bug spray on food

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. -- A Santa Clarita, California, mates is speaking retired aft their roommate allegedly poisoned them, starring to a standoff with deputies connected Tuesday. They accidental it comes aft being tormented by the antheral for months.

According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office - Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station, deputies responded to a location connected Tuesday aft receiving reports of alleged poisoning.

A mates called sheriff's deputies aft reviewing surveillance video and discovering that a roommate was spraying their nutrient with what appeared to beryllium Raid bug spray. They made the find aft galore illnesses and exigency country visits with thorax and tummy pain.

Billy Sonhopper and her husband, David, accidental 42-year-old Timothy Bradbury has been tormenting them for months, but it wasn't until they saw the surveillance video that they realized their lives were successful danger.

The video shows the suspect, aboriginal identified arsenic Bradbury, wearing a state disguise and spraying what appears to beryllium a bluish tin of Raid connected groceries and nutrient successful their shared kitchen, including wrong the pantry.

David Sonhopper said astatine his latest ER visit, helium was told helium has liver damage, and aesculapian professionals said, based connected his humor work, they thought it could beryllium poisoning.

That's what led the mates to cheque the cameras the landlord has installed successful the home.

"On the video we recovered that, too each the different things that he's done successful the twelvemonth that we've lived here, that helium was spraying thing -- we weren't definite if it was rat poison, wasp spray," David Sonhopper said.

"He was spraying worldly each implicit our groceries -- our fruit, our vegetables, our java cookware that we usage each morning, and our full pantry afloat of our chips and cereal, each of our canned goods and spices. Everything. He sprayed it each implicit everything," Billy Sonhopper said.

The mates said that, connected apical of the caller incident, Bradbury has besides thrown distant their nutrient and chopped up their clothes.

"He acceptable our location connected fire. He's poisoned our stuff. He's destroyed our property. I've had to get a caller car due to the fact that helium destroyed my aged one," David Sonhopper said.

They noted that they had called instrumentality enforcement successful the past, but ne'er had overmuch grounds until they discovered the caller surveillance video.

When deputies responded to the location connected Tuesday, they attempted to marque interaction with Bradbury, but helium retreated wrong and refused to travel out, deputies said.

Deputies learned that Bradbury suffers from a intelligence wellness disablement and called a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Mental Evaluation Team to the scene.

After 2 hours of negotiations, Bradbury exited the location voluntarily and was detained, the sheriff's section said. He was placed nether apprehension for willful poisoning of food, drink, medicine oregon h2o with the intent to origin injury.

Video from the country shows gloved deputies going successful and retired of the home. At 1 point, an researcher is seen removing a bluish tin of Raid that looks conscionable similar the 1 successful the surveillance video.

The mates says the proprietor of the location has been trying to evict Bradbury. Given the shocking video, they accidental they're terrified of what could hap next.

"It's been hellhole surviving with him the past year. It's been horrible," David Sonhopper said aft Bradbury's arrest. "With her wellness issues, we were highly concerned. And we're conscionable tired. We've been surviving with truthful overmuch stress."

"We don't privation to beryllium successful fearfulness anymore. We're bushed of it. We conscionable privation to beryllium safe." Billy Sonhopper said.

The mates added that they anticipation the fishy gets the intelligence wellness enactment helium needs.

The probe into the incidental is ongoing.