67-Year-Old Bludgeoned to Death Inside Roaring Creek Cemetery  

A sixty-seven-year-old man was bludgeoned to death inside the Roaring Creek cemetery. Just after six a.m. today, police discovered the lifeless body of Benito Cal next to a tomb with his bicycle flung across him. He had severe injuries to the face. An initial investigation reveals that whoever killed Cal, struck him in the face several times with a concrete block. Cal had relatives living in an area behind the cemetery. He frequently traveled through the graveyard to visit them. We spoke with one relative off camera who told us that she last saw Cal around three p.m. on Wednesday.  She described him as a hardworking and kind individual who troubled no one.

 

Voice of: Relative of Deceased

“Grandpa, he is a cool man. That is all I can say. He been around we. I call him gramps. Everyday he around us. Everyday I see him. He go see my kids around school and give them a little snack. And then he wait for us after school by the Chinese and he still buy snacks for us and anywhere he go he see people and just give them helping hand, give them dollar, whatever he got he give them. He buy food. That man is a good man. He is a cool, cool grandpa. He is well known in the community. He is a family man I won’t say nothing bad because he is around me too long and he is a family man. I don’t know what happened or who could ever do that to an old man,  a sixty-seven-year-old man. What can I say, I don’t know. Actually they called me and they told me this morning that grandpa is dead you know and I went immediately to see and I found him there lying on the ground. I went to see him, I witnessed him. So, that is where I found out that is my grandpa.”

 

Paul Lopez

“As far as you know, he is not a trouble maker.”

 

Voice of: Relative of Deceased

“No he is not a trouble maker. He is a very cool old man. Everybody knows that and everybody knows that right now everybody say that is a good man. Why they do that to him.”

 

Reporter

“He was found in the Cemetry, was that a path he took?”

 

Voice of: Relative of Deceased

“Sometimes, many times he tool the long road but I don’t know what caused him to go that way that day. I don’t know what happened.”