Teen of murdered grandmother found in Sebring | News

Sebring, Florida -- The Polk County teenager who sparked a manhunt after his grandmother was brutally murdered is now in police custody.

Highlands County Sheriff's deputies located 19-year-old Jasper Smiddie coming out of an abandoned home near the Sebring home of his girlfriend's parents on Wednesday morning. 

With Smiddie was his 14-year-old friend and neighbor, Charlie Giem. Officials say Giem is cooperating with Polk detectives.

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Smiddie had an arrest warrant for first degree murder in the homicide of his grandmother, 67-year-old Gloria Helfrich.

He remains in custody in Highlands County, where Polk detectives are interviewing him. Smiddie is expected to be transported back to Polk County on Thursday.

Autopsy results show Helfrich suffered serious injuries: a crossbow arrow shot to the back of the head, 58 stab wounds to the back, 34 stab wounds to the back of the head, one stab wound to the face and bruising to the face by a pipe wrench.