A man has been arrested in connection to the death of a 60-year-old in Lawrenceville who hadn’t been heard from in several weeks.
“It’s horrible, really horrible. They found him in the laundry room all wrapped up in some bed sheets. They told me he was beaten to death, all his ribs were broken.” neighbor Richard Fung said of the incident.
Fung was a close friend of the victim, identified as Robert Terry He told Channel 2′s Tom Regan he went to check on him last month after he hadn’t heard from his friend in weeks. He then went to the house on Mt. Vernon Drive in Lawrenceville, and he smelled a foul odor.
“And I went in, and saw his bunny rabbit was dead, and I knew something was wrong,” said Fung.
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A neighbor showed Regan a cryptic text exchange between him and the victim’s cell number the day after police discovered the body. At that point, the neighbor was unaware of what happened.
In the text, the neighbor asked if he was okay. The person responding said yes, that he was transferring his number to a new phone and would let him know when he gets the new phone. The neighbor believes he was corresponding with the killer. Police said the suspect had stolen the victim’s phone.