A construction worker said he witnessed a homeless man eating a severed leg after a deadly train crash in California.
Jose Ibarra told KBAKTV Ybarra said his crew was working on cement outside the Amtrak station in Wasco on Friday when a man walked past him around 8 a.m. Ybarra thought he was homeless, but then he realized he was holding his amputated leg, he said.
“I don’t know where it came from, but he came over here and was walking all the way here, shaking people’s legs. And he started biting it over there, he chewed it. In the beginning, he was banging it against the wall,’ and everything,” Ybarra said.
A woman was struck by a train on the Amtrak station platform in Wasco, railroad officials said. The woman died, but authorities have not yet identified her. Investigators believe the woman’s leg was severed in the accident, and the man picked it up.
“The skin on the leg was hanging down and you could see the bones,” Ibarra said.
In a video she shot, Ibarra yelled to her co-workers that a man was eating her feet.
“He’s eating that shit!” he said before repeating it in Spanish.
The man in the video was acting erratic and at one point appeared to be laughing at Ibarra’s recording.
Police stopped the man after an Amtrak station employee called 911, Ybarra said. Video he shot showed the man flailing his legs as police vehicles began to surround him.
Police identified the man as 27-year-old Recendo Telles. They arrested him on numerous outstanding warrants and also charged him with misdemeanor removal of human body parts from a non-cemetery without law enforcement approval.
kero tv recorded Video shows what appears to be bloodstains on the sidewalk near the station. Some broadcasters blurred out his feet in the footage and loudly played comments about him eating his feet.
The Kern County Sheriff’s Office said it is actively investigating both the fatal train crash and Telles’ actions.
Wasco is a city in the San Joaquin Valley, approximately 210 miles north of Los Angeles, with a population of approximately 21,000.
Ibarra’s interview is below.
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