Texas man remembered by Fox News hosts after repeat offender arrested in savage park bench slaying
A 62-year-old Texas engineer with ties to multiple Fox News hosts was stabbed to death from behind in what authorities have described as a random attack on a park bench in Round Rock, Texas , and deputies have arrested a repeat offender who spent months in the local jail earlier this year.
Andrew James Wimsatt, of Austin, was killed on Sept.
7 — minutes after he sat down in the park after visiting his mother at a nursing home nearby, according to authorities.
Williamson County deputies have arrested a 26-year-old local man named Benedict Chinedu Ogbodiegwu on murder and theft charges.
GOT A TIP? The murder was recorded on surveillance video , according to the Williamson County Sheriff's Office.
A man identified as Wimsatt sat down on a park bench at around 11 a.m., authorities said.
A few minutes later, another man, alleged to be Ogbodiegwu, grabbed him from behind and repeatedly drove a knife into his neck.
The victim struggled but was unable to push his attacker away as the stabbing continued, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Fox 7 Austin .
The suspect then wiped the blood off on his shirt and walked out of view.
REPEAT OFFENDER BUSTED AGAIN LESS THAN 24 HOURS AFTER RELEASE IN BRAZEN JEWELRY STORE THEFT CASE: POLICE Wimsatt, who had a Ph.D. in civil engineering, is credited on IMDB as an executive producer of the Penn Jillete horror/comedy "Director's Cut." He worked for the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and had an Instagram account filled with photos of wildlife, vintage storefonts and city landscapes.
He also had ties to several Fox News personalities.
"He might be the only person on social media to never leave a bad word on a post about anyone," Greg Gutfeld wrote in an X post after news of the arrest.
"He was relentless supportive and if he didn't like something, he usually kept it to himself, or found a way to engage positively." Kat Timpf called him a "fan who became a friend" — a friend not only to her, but also to her family.
They had lunch in Fort Worth in June, and she said she was expecting to see him at a show in Nevada later this month.
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