Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Man found naked with tongue severed

Detroit police are investigating after finding a naked Sterling Heights man wandering the east side Monday night. The 22-year-old man, whose name is not being released, could not communicate with officers because his tongue was severed, said Sgt. Omar Feliciano. He also suffered from loss of blood and other injuries.

A witness observed the man, who was in critical condition at Detroit Receiving Hospital, jumping out of the second-floor window of a house on the 8000 block of Almont Monday evening.

"We don't know if it was cut," Feliciano said of the man's tongue. "Officers observed it to have been bitten off - it might have been self-inflicted when he fell out of a window."

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