A Florida man has been arrested after he allegedly killed his roommate for throwing his food away.
Bryan Marquez, 22, was detained on Sunday 12 February, with police saying that they responded to a name to a home in Fort Pierce on Florida’s japanese coast after a person reported that they noticed blood in the yard and what gave the impression to be a shallow grave.
As officers received to the space, they found a physique partway buried in a gap 18 inches deep with a foot “partially exposed,” in line with Law & Crime.
Arrest data state that regulation enforcement gathered blood, rocks, gloves, plywood, shovels, and a blanket from the yard.
An post-mortem revealed {that a} Hispanic man between 35 and 45 years previous had been buried in the yard. He had extreme accidents to his face, in addition to a damaged nostril and a number of other damaged ribs.
Mr Marquez was interrogated by regulation enforcement and instantly detained due to a separate arrest warrant, officers stated, in line with Law & Crime.
At the police station, he was requested about the physique discovered at his residence. Police stated that he confessed to having killed his roommate, whom he solely knew as “Guanajuato”.
The arrest report states that Mr Marquez stated that the roommate had thrown his plate of food on the ground and that he disrespected him, Law & Crime reported.
While he didn’t take any motion at the moment, Mr Marquez reportedly stated that he modified his thoughts after having a couple of drinks and selected to go after Guanajuato. He stated that he punched Guanajuato in the ribs, face, and nostril, knocking him to the ground the place he grabbed dust and gravel, pushing it into his mouth.
He then yelled at Guanajuato to face up, however he didn’t transfer, at which level he realized that the roommate had died, paperwork state.
Mr Marquez stated he selected to tug the physique throughout the yard, and dig a shallow grave to bury Guanajuato earlier than going to mattress.
Mr Marquez is now in jail on a cost of first-degree homicide.
Sgt Charles Donnon from the Fort Pierce Police Department instructed CBS12 that “the officers that arrived on scene first were taken off guard”.
“Where we found the decedent was a very small place, and at first, they were very concerned that it was a child, so everybody was on edge right from the beginning,” he added.
Sgt Dannon stated the proprietor of the residence referred to as the police when he noticed the leg, main police to Mr Marquez as he additionally lived on the property.
“He lived on the property. He rented a small shed, just on the north side of the property from the homeowner,” Sgt Donnon stated. “There was an altercation between them earlier in the day over food. He didn’t like that our victim had thrown food away. He indicated that he got intoxicated throughout the day, approached him at night, and that’s what he did what he did.”
“We received information on Tuesday that he had already contacted family and was getting a bus ticket to get back to Mexico, so this is when the hairs stand up,” Sgt Donnon added.
Mr Marquez was in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and each he and the sufferer had been in the US illegally, in line with CBS12.