John Marshall, 52, told attorney Robert Harris he didn't know who else to trust

A Florida man claims he killed his neighbor in self-defense, threw the victim’s body in his truck and drove to his lawyer’s office because he didn’t know who else to trust.

John Marshall, 52, told attorney Robert Harris that he fatally shot 65-year-old Theodore Hubbell Jr. in self-defense after the two got into an argument Wednesday, WZVN-TV reports.

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Marshall then put his neighbor’s body in the pickup bed of his truck and drove straight to Harris’s office.

“Once I learned of the facts, I called 911,” Harris told the TV network.

Marshall claims that Hubbell tried to kill him first, his lawyer also said. In the days before the fatal incident, Harris advised his client to get a restraining order against the other man because he had threatened him over building on a property in Bokeelia.

“This man went up to him and said he wanted to apologize for his behavior and then pulled the gun,” Harris said.

Hubbell allegedly pistol-whipped Marshall, says the lawyer. The two fell to the ground and fought over the gun before Hubbell was fatally shot.

“He’s distraught,” Harris added of his client. “He’s a man who fought for his life tonight, but it doesn’t change the fact that someone is dead.”

Marshall was taken to the hospital where he was treated for some missing teeth and broken fingers.

No charges have been filed in the case as of yet, according to the News-Press of Fort Myers. “It’s the cleanest-cut case of self defense I’ve ever seen,” Harris told the paper.