Man in Custody for Reportedly Consuming Limb of Individual Struck by Train
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The city of Wasco, Calif., is in shock after a disturbing incident.
A man, identified as Rosendo Tellez, 27, has been arrested after allegedly removing human remains from the city’s Amtrak Station following an incident in which a pedestrian was struck by a train. Eyewitnesses at the scene, including local construction worker Jose Ibarra, alleged they saw Tellez—who residents in Wasco said is homeless—eating a human leg.
“Whatever he had in his hand, he started biting into it and everything, and it turned out to be a person’s leg,” Ibarra recalled to NBC affiliate KGET. “On the video that we have, it shows clearly that he started chewing on the leg and everything.”
A video posted to social media showed Tellez bent over what seemed to be a leg before he waved it around as police cars were parked in the area.