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Where is David Shafer now? Whereabouts explored ahead of Evil Lives Here on ID

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Sarah Richards

Published Jan 22, 2026

David Shafer was free from jail, but still under supervision and dwelling with his dad Delbert Shafer, a policeman, in Leetonia, Ohio, when he lethally went after the last option and passed on him to die while he zeroed in on tidying up the crime location. He later called 911 after Delbert capitulated to his wounds, deceived specialists, and took the casualty’s whole firearm assortment, yet was before long pronounced a suspect in the killing.

Whenever charges were brought against him following his capture, Shafer conceded to a lesser allegation of deliberate homicide alongside one more charge of having weapons under handicap and messing with proof, getting a sum of 14 years in jail in 2021.

As per reports, David Shafer is as of now spending time in jail at Belmont Restorative Organization in Belmont Region, Ohio.

An impending episode of ID’s Malicious Lives Here will return to Delbert Shafer’s beating demise by his child. The episode, named I Will Continuously Be Frightened of Him, airs on the channel this Sunday, April 30, at 8:00 pm ET. The authority summation for the impending episode peruses as:

“From the second Deborah Williamson meets her stepson, David Shafer, she feels something disrupting about him; when her admonitions about his alarming conduct go unnoticed, the obliteration he eventually unleashes goes past her imagination.”David Shafer conceded to somewhere around three charges in 2021 in association with his dad’s beating passing

In January 2021, David Shafer, matured 51, of Leetonia, was condemned to 14 years in jail for the demise of his dad, Delbert, who was found lethargic in his home almost quite a while back. Shafer accepted his sentence for intentional homicide, having weapons under incapacity, and messing with proof charges for the demise of his dad in the wake of entering a liable supplication.

As per reports, Shafer is at present carrying out his 14-year punishment at the Belmont Remedial Establishment in Belmont Province, Ohio, and will be qualified for parole in 2033.

Examiners asserted that Delbert Shafer died in the wake of being gone after by his child, who decided not to look for clinical consideration for himself and on second thought passed on him to die from his wounds. All things being equal, David Shafer tidied up the crime location, deceived specialists about what occurred, and gave his 18-year-old relative a portion of his dad’s lower-esteem guns.

Specialists found a secret room during the homicide examination, where a large portion of Delbert’s guns were reserved. They found the room covered with a table, a heap of books, and different items the second time they went into the house utilizing a court order.

As per reports, David Shafer was taken in by his dad when he had no-where to remain while released early Pennsylvania. Shafer was recently sentenced in Pennsylvania subsequent to being accused of 13 counts of robbery, nine counts of endeavored thievery, and 11 counts of getting taken property, alongside a couple of burglary related charges.

Deborah Williamson, Delbert’s ex, who was the stepmother to Shafer beginning when he was around 10 years of age, declared that the respondent was “manipulative and rebellious” even as a kid and guaranteed he had compromised her previously. She further uncovered that according to the demise declaration, the estimated time between the wounds and the hour of death was hours.

Then again, Shafer’s safeguard contended that the weapons had a place with the dad and that the litigant never utilized them. With respect to giving the weapons to his 18-year-old relative, they contended that it was normal for a family to separate a departed individual’s belongings.
Besides, they attested that Shafer cleaned the house after his dad’s passing since he resided there too. They likewise referenced that the casualty was worth more to him alive since he upheld him and they voyaged together, and that he never got any of the disaster protection cash at any rate.

David Shafer initially demanded that he had called a medical caretaker companion to beware of his dad with a stethoscope and that he was fine. In any case, when gotten some information about the medical caretaker’s name, he guaranteed he was unable to review it. He likewise claimed that his dad’s wounds, including lethal cerebrum dying, were brought about by a fall. Yet, tests showed that he supported somewhere around six disasters for the face and two to the rear of the head.