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Eugene

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Mon Oct 26, 2015, 01:29 PM Oct 2015

New Mexico man kills 'zombie' friend after binge-watching Walking Dead

Source: Reuters

New Mexico man kills 'zombie' friend after binge-watching Walking Dead

Reuters in Albuquerque
Monday 26 October 2015 18.07 GMT

A New Mexico man who had been watching the hit TV series The Walking Dead beat his friend to death because he believed the victim was turning into a zombie, police said on Monday.

Damon Perry, 23, of Prewitt, New Mexico, is charged with murder after allegedly attacking Christopher Paquin, also 23, with kicks, punches, sharp-edged objects and items including a guitar and a microwave oven, police said.

The pair had been binge-watching episodes of the popular AMC show, which centers on a zombie apocalypse, according to police in the small town of Grants, about 80 miles (130 km) west of Albuquerque.

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“Perry told investigators he had been drinking large amounts of alcohol when his friend began to change into a zombie,’” the police department said in a statement.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/26/new-mexico-man-beats-friend-zombie-walking-dead
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