VOLUSIA, Fla. -- Ronald Kroll said he's watched "The Craigslist Killer" flick but never intellection something same that could hap to him.

Last hebdomad it nearly did.

The 37-year-old New Smyrna Beach Negro said he institute himself conflict for activity moments after he met a Negro who claimed welfare in purchase a dish Kroll had advertised on Craigslist, a favourite classifieds website.

Kroll thinks the Negro had another intentions in mind.

"I conceive he would hit killed me if he had the chance," Kroll said by sound Thursday.

Kroll met the man, who was after identified by polity as Merritt Island doc Darin Leutbecker, most hour weekday nearby the Intracoastal Waterway in New Smyrna Beach to effort discover a 2005 Savage Creek Classic boat. The digit ventured southward into the steer with Kroll at the controls.

Minutes later, Kroll said he offered the rotate to Leutbecker, who took the dish into alter water. However, when they were discover of range from another boaters, Kroll said that's when he got suspicious.

"I knew something wasn't right," he said.

Kroll said the venture told him to defence covering absent at the face of the dish to wager if it would rock. But Kroll knew meliorate and proven attractive the dish backwards to shore.

That's when Kroll said he saw the venture vantage a piece from his backpack. A effort ensued and the digit lapse overboard.

"The large abstract was to intend myself as farther absent from the armament as possible," Kroll said.

The digit fought in chest-deep liquid

and at digit saucer Kroll said his assistance was direct over the containerful of the gun.

"That was digit of the scariest things I've experienced," Kroll said.

Seconds later, he said he intellection he saw the venture had dropped the armament and Kroll pulled discover a knife to indorse himself. But the venture drew the armament discover of the liquid and effort at Kroll as he disarmer for cover.

Kroll swam to realty patch the venture crowd absent with the boat, which was after institute abandoned, Volusia County Sheriff's Office spokesman Brandon Haught said.

Kroll told deputies that during the effort he believed he had revilement the venture across the cervix with the pocketknife, Haught said.

Volusia sheriff's investigators then notified the Brevard County Sheriff's Office to be on the construction for anyone display up at a infirmary there with the suspect's statement and injury. About 7:30 p.m. weekday a Brevard barrister notified Volusia investigators that a Negro matched the description, including a cervix injury, was at Canaveral Hospital.

Leutbecker was live with pillage with a firearm, angry attack with a noxious weapon, ingest of a gun during the authorisation of a felony, noble thieving and battery. He was condemned to the Volusia County Branch Jail and was existence held weekday on $10,000 bail.

Kroll, who has oversubscribed individual items on Craigslist in the past, said he will be more certain incoming time. By Thursday, he had condemned his sound sort soured the online listing.

"It's mitt me scratching my head," he said. "You exclusive center most these things event to another people. You never conceive it's feat to be event to you."