Cops pay a man's tab at a pancake house because they believe he is mentally ill and he 'later confesses to murdering his roommate'
Confessed: Mykel Cantrel Cooper, 23, confessed to murdering his roommate after cops paid his tab
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Phoenix police say two officers' decision to pay for a troubled man's restaurant tab led to his being arrested in his roommate's stabbing death.
Sgt. Tommy Thompson said on Friday the officers went to The International House of Pancakes early on Wednesday morning where a man named Mykel Cantrel Cooper, 23, said he had no money to pay for his meal.
The officers concluded the man had some type of mental health issue, so they paid for his meal and tip and took him to a behavioral health facility rather than take him to jail, Thompson said.
At the facility at short time later, the man told staff there he'd done 'something bad to his roommate', Thompson said.
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Stabbed to death: Police found the body of 29-year-old Steven Horkovy, who allegedly had been killed on Tuesday by his roommate Mykel Cantrel Cooper
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So nice for the Cops to pay his meal… but I am glad he Confess and got arrested.
