Homemade Sword Used in Detroit Homicide
From Times Wire Reports
A Detroit factory worker attacked and killed a fellow employee with a sword the suspect apparently made himself at the metals plant where both men worked, police said.
Witnesses told police the 30-year-old man had complained he was being bullied by another worker.
The suspect had been working on the sword for several days and when he finished, he struck the 40-year-old victim in the neck, nearly decapitating him, police said. Neither man was identified.
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