46-year-old Utah man was arrested Friday night after he admitted to beating his father to death with a hatchet.

West Valley City Police said they began their investigation after a caller reported Friday morning that Jeremy Pulver told them he had beaten his father to death and filled his mouth with baking soda to make sure he was dead, KUTV reported.

Pulver fled the scene, police said, but the witness stayed to wait for officers, who found Pulver’s father dead in the bedroom of his home with what appeared to be head trauma.

Investigators found Pulver a short time later and took him in for questioning.

Pulver told detectives that his father had told him he “wanted to die due to his elderly condition,” and that his father, identified as John Pulver, wanted him to kill him, and he wanted to kill his father.

On Friday, he said, he “worked up the confidence to kill” him and went to his dad’s home and let himself into his father’s bedroom, KTVX reported.

Records say that Pulver first tried to suffocate his father, but his father began to fight back and he began to fear for his life.

“Jeremy grabbed his hatchet he bought from Lowes and struck (his father) on the head four to six times until (he) stopped fighting,” records say. “Jeremy admitted that following this, he put sodium bicarbonate, which Jeremy described as baking soda into (his father’s) mouth as he learned it was a good method to ensure someone was dead.”

The crime scene matched Pulver’s descriptions, and he was booked on a count of first degree murder.

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