The recently freed maniac who stabbed a 6-year-old boy to death in a random Kentucky home invasion in 2015 was rearrested in Florida on Thursday afternoon, officials announced.
Ronald Exantus — who was released last week after serving just eight years for the heinous killing — was booked into Marion County Jail for violation of parole and failing to register as a convicted felon, according to prison records and the state’s attorney general.
“My office has been working with State Attorney [Bill] Gladson’s office in Marion County since we were alerted that this dangerous individual who murdered a child by repeatedly stabbing him in the head was in Florida,” AG James Uthmeier wrote on X Thursday.
failure to register as a convicted felon, officials announced Thursday. Marion County Jail
“[T]he Marion County Sheriff’s Office and 5th Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office obtained a warrant for the arrest of Ronald Exantus for failure to register as a convicted felon,” he continued.
“State officials are now working to send him back to Kentucky.”
Exantus had been serving mandatory re-entry supervision in Florida since his release from a Kentucky prison, according to WKYT.
The heartless maniac was released by Kentucky’s Department of Corrections on Oct. 1 — overriding the parole board’s recommendation that he complete his already light sentence behind bars, the outlet reported.
and stabbed the boy repeatedly in the head with a kitchen knife. Find a grave
In 2018, Exantus was sentenced to only 20 years in prison for the 2015 home-invasion killing of 6-year-old Logan Tipton, whom he stabbed repeatedly in the head with a kitchen knife while the child slept in his bed.
Several of Logan’s family members were also stabbed during the invasion and witnessed the blood-curdling murder of the helpless boy.
Lawyers for Exantus successfully argued in court that he was criminally insane and thus not liable for the grisly killing. He was instead convicted of assault charges and was sentenced to two decades behind bars.
However, he was outrageously released after serving only eight years of that sentence.
The Tipton family expressed fear and rage at the release of their beloved Logan’s killer. The child’s father vowed to settle the score if he ever saw Exantus again.
“He told [my daughter] that he was going to kill every one of us. So now I’ve gotta be on extra guard to protect my kids because I will not lose another one,” dad Dean Tipton told Fox56.
“I’ve had my talks with God ’cause I’m not afraid to tell you all, I told the court — if I ever cross paths with him, I will kill the man. I will kill him where he stands,” the dad said.
