A Florida man has been charged with manslaughter after an investigation
revealed that he beat his roommate to death following a disagreement
about a chicken foot, Tampa police said.
James Jugo,
52, admitted in an interview with detectives on Saturday that he beat
his roommate, 56-year-old Benjamin Calderon, with his fist after an
argument about some stolen food, police said.
The fight started earlier, when Jugo took a chicken foot from a skillet
as Calderon cooked in the apartment they shared. Calderon had recently
become homeless after losing his security job, his brother Bolivar
Calderon said. He had lived out of his car for a while and tried staying
at a shelter. He ended up living with Jugo and a female roommate, the
brother said.
Calderon was saving money to apply for a licence that would allow him to
work as an armed security officer. "He had plans. He was setting goals
for himself," Bolivar Calderon said.
"No one deserves to die over a chicken foot," he added. Jugo was booked into jail and is being held on $15,000 bail.
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