Prosecutors say the man accused of killing a retired Oshkosh police officer had a history of mental health issues.
Twenty-eight-year-old Ian Suzuki is in custody on a $500,000 bond, on charges of first-degree intentional homicide and battery.
Sixty-seven-year-old Jay Puestohl was stabbed to death at a home on Waugoo Avenue Sunday afternoon. Prosecutors say Suzuki admitted he stabbed Puestohl in the neck, and he urged officers to save him.
They say Puestohl was friends with Suzuki’s mother, Wendy, and she was also hurt.
Prosecutors say Ian Suzuki spent the previous night in a hospital, because he was hallucinating, after eating some seeds. Before the stabbing, his mother went to the hospital. She asked him to sign a contract to get clean and get a job, if he wanted to live at her house.
They say he refused, and showed up at the house later.
