Allegany Man Confesses to Murder
A 22-year-old man has confessed to killing another man in an Allegany trailer park late Monday night.
The statement Gregory Farr gave to state police says he hit 58-year-old Stephen Balser with a crowbar several times, punched him, wrapped his hands and feet with duct tape and then stabbed him until he stopped moving.
Balser lived with a friend of Farr’s at Valley View Estates and Farr said he had only known him for a couple of months, according to the statement posted at http://wivb.com. He said that over the last few days Balser had accused him of taking things. He told police that he told Balser he was “sick of him bringing my name out of his mouth sideways, by which I mean he was disrespecting me and my name.”
During his interview with police they asked how Balser reacted to the conversation. Farr said his friend Doug told him Balser said if he came back on the property “he would knock me on my ass.”
Farr then told police he had planned to wait outside in a tent where Balser went to smoke, and would scare him by hitting him one time with a crowbar.
Farr told police that when Balser went into the tent he hit him once in the head with the crowbar. Balser fell face first onto the ground and said, “OK. That hurt really bad. We can call it even.”
Farr said, “No, I have to finish,” but he put the crowbar down.
Balser stood up, then Farr shoved him and punched him in the face. He picked the crowbar up and hit Balser two or three more times in the head. He said Balser was struggling so he picked up some duct tape he saw on the floor of the tent and started to wrap Balser’s hands and feet with it.
“I tried to put it around his head,” Farr told police, “but it would not stick because of the blood.”
Farr said he found a big pocketknife in the tent earlier and used that to stab Balser in the neck and abdomen and stopped when Balser was not moving.
He said he then got paper towels from Doug, cleaned his arms and put the bloody towels inside Balser’s long johns. He got a change of clothes from Doug, then they took the bloody clothes and tossed them into a wooded area off Chipmonk Road.
When asked if everything in the statement he made to police is the truth to the best of his knowledge Farr said, “It is the damn truth. Every word of it.”
Farr is being held in Cattaraugus County Jail without bail.
The statement Gregory Farr gave to state police says he hit 58-year-old Stephen Balser with a crowbar several times, punched him, wrapped his hands and feet with duct tape and then stabbed him until he stopped moving.
Balser lived with a friend of Farr’s at Valley View Estates and Farr said he had only known him for a couple of months, according to the statement posted at http://wivb.com. He said that over the last few days Balser had accused him of taking things. He told police that he told Balser he was “sick of him bringing my name out of his mouth sideways, by which I mean he was disrespecting me and my name.”
During his interview with police they asked how Balser reacted to the conversation. Farr said his friend Doug told him Balser said if he came back on the property “he would knock me on my ass.”
Farr then told police he had planned to wait outside in a tent where Balser went to smoke, and would scare him by hitting him one time with a crowbar.
Farr told police that when Balser went into the tent he hit him once in the head with the crowbar. Balser fell face first onto the ground and said, “OK. That hurt really bad. We can call it even.”
Farr said, “No, I have to finish,” but he put the crowbar down.
Balser stood up, then Farr shoved him and punched him in the face. He picked the crowbar up and hit Balser two or three more times in the head. He said Balser was struggling so he picked up some duct tape he saw on the floor of the tent and started to wrap Balser’s hands and feet with it.
“I tried to put it around his head,” Farr told police, “but it would not stick because of the blood.”
Farr said he found a big pocketknife in the tent earlier and used that to stab Balser in the neck and abdomen and stopped when Balser was not moving.
He said he then got paper towels from Doug, cleaned his arms and put the bloody towels inside Balser’s long johns. He got a change of clothes from Doug, then they took the bloody clothes and tossed them into a wooded area off Chipmonk Road.
When asked if everything in the statement he made to police is the truth to the best of his knowledge Farr said, “It is the damn truth. Every word of it.”
Farr is being held in Cattaraugus County Jail without bail.
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