'Son of Elvis' accused of abusing elderly dad with lit cigarette
By Kevin P. Connolly and Susan Jacobson
Orlando Sentinel
October 3, 2011
A 46-year-old DeLand-area man who claims to be the son of Elvis Presley is accused of abusing his elderly father with a lit cigarette, an arrest report shows.
Tracy Gerard Chapman was arrested Friday on a charge of elder abuse, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said today.
Deputies say he burned his 82-year-old father, Jack Chapman, on the back of his neck after the father told him to stop talking badly about another in Kansas, the report states.
Tracy Chapman told deputies that he burned his father — who is partially disabled because of a stroke — because his father called him an obscene name, a deputy wrote.
Tracy Chapman also insisted that he was the son of Elvis, according to the report. Tracy Chapman told the deputy that his claim "has always caused him trouble in the past," the report states.
The deputy wrote that Chapman "was somewhat delusional [but] otherwise appeared to be in control of his faculties and able to provide oral statements of what had occurred."
Jack Chapman also told investigators that his son has hit him in the past and had most recently struck him in the left leg a couple of weeks before he was burned, according to the report. A deputy found no signs of injury anywhere other than Chapman's neck.
The cigarette-burning incident happened Sept. 26 or 27, but it wasn't reported to law officers until Thursday, when Jack Chapman told his son in Kansas about it, the report shows.
Tracy Chapman is being held in the Volusia County Branch Jail.
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SOURCE: The Orlando Sentinel
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