Thirty-five year-old Jose Luis Ochoa died after being stabbed in the right calf by a rooster strapped with cockfighting razors, according to an autopsy report that the Kern Country Sheriff's Department made public on Friday.
Local reports say that the incident occurred during a cockfight. Roosters are usually strapped with razor-like knives to fight each other during cockfights.
Authorities say deputies were dispatched to a reported cockfight near in the intersection of Avenue 24 and Road 128, about three miles north of the Kern County line and west of Highway 99. According to reports, officers arrived to break up the cockfighting ring causing participants to flee the scene. Ochoa was one of them. The responding deputies found five dead roosters and other evidence of cockfighting at the scene.
The reports did not indicate exactly how the stab wound killed the victim, whether it was excessive bleeding, infection or something else. He reportedly died about two hours after arriving at the hospital.
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