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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A horrifying video circulating on social media Friday appeared to show a man carrying a severed body part of someone killed by a train in Wasco.
The sheriff’s office said a man was arrested following the alleged incident.
The video was recorded following a deadly train collision and shared with 17 News.
The Kern County Fire Department said emergency crews responded to a report of a train colliding with a person near G and 7th streets in Wasco at around 8:05 a.m. A person was pronounced dead from the collision.
A witness told 17 News it appeared the man was carrying a severed leg.
The sheriff’s office said Friday afternoon Resendo Tellez, 27, removed evidence from the scene. Deputies located and arrested Tellez a short time later at 7th and F streets, according to inmate records.
Tellez was booked into jail for taking evidence from a scene and outstanding warrants, officials said in a release. BNSF is investigating the collision.
According to inmate records, Tellez is booked on a charge of removing or mutilating human remains.
Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 661-861-3110.
Friday’s incident marks possibly the second time this year someone removed a body part from a crash scene.
Carlos Baldovinos, executive director of The Mission at Kern County, said he wasn’t present for the incident, but was told someone brought a hand to the shelter three weeks ago, just days after a train hit a pedestrian in east Bakersfield.
He said law enforcement was called.
“I have never seen or heard of anything like that before,” Baldovinos said.
Where did the hand come from? That’s unclear.
A shocking video captured the moment a California man walked off with a severed human leg after a train accident where a woman died, according to police.
The video shows a disheveled man looking around while carrying a large, ragged object.
The Kern County Sheriff’s Office said that a train struck a woman at about 8:05 a.m. near G and 7th streets in the town of Wasco near Bakersfield.
A witness told KGET-TV that they saw a man remove a severed leg from the scene near an Amtrak Station.
The video shows the man in a red hooded sweatshirt and black pants leaning over an object. He turns around and erratically laughs at the person recording the scene, then staggers away.
A second scene in the video appears to show the police response and the man waving the leg at the officers.
KGET published a censored version of the video with words bleeped out and the image of the leg blurred out.
A voice can be heard on the video saying, “He’s eating that s**t!” in English and then in Spanish.
Some of the news videos edit out the portions where it looks like he might be eating the leg.
The sheriff’s office later confirmed that they had arrested the man and identified him as 27-year-old Resendo Tellez.
Other news footage from KERO-TV showed what appeared to be a bloody stain on the sidewalk at the scene of the incident.
Tellez was arrested without incident and police said he had outstanding warrants. He was also charged with misdemeanor removal of human body parts from an area that is not a cemetery without law enforcement approval.
Some reports say he was charged with mutilating the body, which supports the claim that he had devoured some of it.
Wasco is a city of approximately 21k residents located about 25 miles north of Bakersfield in the San Joaquin Valley.
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