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Brad Davis, 34, of McLoud, Oklahoma, seen here in an undated police photo, who pleaded guilty Monday. May 11, 2015, to first-degree manslaughter in the 2013 death of stepfather Denver St. Clair, 58.

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An Oklahoma man who strangled his stepfather by pulling the man's underwear over his head says he only meant to embarrass him with an "atomic wedgie."

Brad Lee Davis, 34, of McLoud, pleaded guilty Monday in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to first-degree manslaughter in the 2013 death of Denver St. Clair, 58. He originally has been charged with murder.

Davis told the judge at a sentencing hearing Wednesday the whole thing is "like a bad dream," according to The Oklahoman.

An autopsy determined that St. Clair died after his airway was cut off from the elastic of his torn underwear that was pulled over his head from behind in a procedure nicknamed an "atomic wedgie," according to the Tulsa World.



Davis recalled the incident during the hearing to help a judge decided punishment during a July 16 sentencing. Davis faces up to 35 years in prison.

Davis punched his stepfather unconscious before stretching the man's underwear over his head during a fight, he told Pottawatomie County District Judge John G. Canavan Jr. Davis claimed St. Clair attacked him first.



"I never had any intention of killing that man," he said. "There's no way I ever thought that could have happened. ... I was panicked, mad, scared. Things got out of hand."

Police said the Davis and St. Clair had been drinking together at a trailer a few days before Christmas, KFOR-TV reported.

They began to argue after St. Clair made negative comments about Davis' mother while she was recovering from hip surgery at a hospital, police said, the Oklahoman reported.

His stepfather was a bully, Davis said, and he pulled up his underwear in hopes of embarrassing him. In fact, he said, he took a photograph of his stepfather showing his underwear over his head.



This is a Jan. 9, 2015, report from WOAI-TV in San Antonio, Texas, on Davis' arrest: