HORRIFIC HALLOWEEN: Son beheads mum, kicks her head across the street (GRAPHIC IMAGES)

Police in New York are trying to make sense of the action of a man who is believed to have beheaded his mother and kicked her head across a busy street; and thereafter, jumping in front of a train.

The woman’s body was found on Tuesday night on a Long Island street while her severed head was on the opposite side. The woman, who is thought to be in her 60s, was wearing only a bra and pants, said a witness.

New York Daily News quotes the witness, Jack Imperial, 41, as saying: “The body’s feet were at the curb, the shoulders were at the middle of the street. The head was across the street.

“I’ve seen some gruesome stuff in my years of living ... but nothing like this. I didn’t expect to see something like this, especially not out here.”

Some other witnesses thought it was a Halloween prank

Photo by Frank Imperial/New York Daily News

Just 20 minutes after the corpse’s discovery, MTA police confirmed that a man in his 30s, whom sources say was possibly the woman’s son, had stepped in front of a Ronkonkoma-bound train near the Clinton St. crossing, close to the scene.
 
Police sources said they believe the woman’s head may have been kicked across the street after the murder, but it was not clear if the murder actually took place outside or inside the apartment building whose frontage, the body was found.

Nick Gordon, who said he lived across the hall from the woman, told the New York Daily News that said she moved in a few months ago and had a small white dog.

He said. “When I came out the door, I saw the blood on the tile. It was all over, as if someone could’ve been pulling a body. You could see the smears going down the stairs.”

The woman and her presumed son are yet to be identified by the police.


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