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Man beats roommate to death over chicken foot

Says he struck roommate with fists, witness claims he used a cutting board

By C1 Staff

TAMPA, Fla. — A man admitted to detectives that he attacked his 56-year-old roommate during a dispute over a coked chicken foot.

According to the Huffington Post, James Jugo snatched a chicken foot from a skillet that his roommate, Benjamin Calderon, had been cooking with.

Jugo confessed that he hit Calderon with his fists, but a witness claims that he pounded Calderon with a cutting board.

Calderon had just turned his life around, after dealing with homelessness, losing his job and receiving a DUI.

“No one deserves to die over a chicken foot,” Bolivar Calderon, the victim’s brother, said.

Jugo has been arrested 19 times in Florida, and is currently charged with manslaughter.