Man Shown in Video With Severed Leg From Train Crash Victim Is Arrested

Man Shown in Video With Severed Leg From Train Crash Victim Is Arrested
Seventh and F streets in Wasco, Calif., in May 2016. Google Maps/Screenshot via California Insider
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A man was arrested March 22 for removing evidence from the scene of a deadly train accident in Kern County after he took a severed leg from the victim and was shown eating it in a video shared on social media, according to media reports.

Emergency staff responded to reports of a pedestrian who had been struck by a train in the Amtrak station near the 700 block of G and 7th streets in Wasco, a city 24 miles northwest of Bakersfield, KGET reported.