Man Found Nude, Bloody In Road After Zephyrhills Couple Stabbed

ZEPHYRHILLS, FL — Pasco County Sheriff's detectives are still unraveling the events that led to a Zephyrhills man being stabbed to death and woman in critical condition from stab wounds.

On Sunday shortly after 9 p.m., deputies responded to a 911 call from a home in the Lake Bernadette area of Zephyrhills and found Kyle Austin Heady, 28, walking in the road nude and partially covered in blood.

When deputies went to the home where the 911 call originated, they found a man dead in the living room from numerous stab wounds and blunt-force trauma to the top of his skull. A woman in another part of the house was critically injured after being stabbed multiple times and struck on the head.

Deputies found a large butcher knife with blood on it in the living room. Furniture had been overturned and items broken in the house indicating a struggle, they said.

The woman named Heady as their attacker.

During an interview with detectives, Heady, who is homeless, said he’d been drinking when he went to the home of the couple he was acquainted with and asked for money. When the couple refused, he told sheriff's deputies that he flew into a "rage."

Heady said the couple had been sitting on the living room couch playing solitaire and watching television when he began punching the man on the head and then turned his attention to the woman when she tried to get up from the couch to escape. He told detectives he struck them so hard he thought his right wrist was broken.

He said he must have blacked out during portions of the attack because he didn't remember grabbing the butcher knife and stabbing the couple.

Heady was arrested and charged with homicide and attempted homicide.

The woman was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. The name of the woman and the man who was killed have not been released.