A Michigan man final Thursday pleaded responsible to mutilation of a physique and open homicide after killing a school pupil he met on relationship app Grindr and consuming components of the deceased physique.
David Latunski, 53, killed Kevin Bacon, a 25-year-old College of Michigan-Flint pupil and hairdresser in December of 2019.
In response to MLive, Latunski lured Bacon to his residence, stabbed him within the again and took his physique components to his kitchen the place he consumed them.
The cannibal additionally instructed police he minimize off Bacon’s testicles and ate them.
Police discovered Bacon’s mutilated corpse hanging from the ceiling in Latunski’s basement, MLive reported.
“Kevin was a very good child, and he didn’t deserve what he received,” Bacon’s father Karl instructed WNEM.
“We received’t need to undergo a prolonged trial,” mentioned Karl. “Seeing Kevin’s footage once more in court docket, possibly we received’t need to undergo all that.”
MLive reported:
Mark David Latunski, the Shiawassee County man accused of killing and dismembering 25-year-old Kevin Bacon in December 2019, has pleaded responsible.
Latunski, 52, appeared earlier than Choose Matthew J. Stewart of the thirty fifth Circuit Court docket Thursday, Sept. 22, and pleaded responsible as charged to open homicide and mutilation of a physique.
Open homicide accommodates each first- and second-degree homicide.
A level listening to might be held on Oct. 18 to find out whether or not Latunski is convicted of first- or second-degree homicide, or manslaughter.
Latunski was initially charged with open homicide and mutilation of a physique in December 2019, days after Bacon’s mutilated physique was found contained in the basement of Latunski’s Bennington Township residence.
Bacon, of Swartz Creek, was stabbed, his physique hung from his ankles, his throat minimize, and components of him have been eaten, based on prior reporting by MLive, which cited police who searched Latunski’s residence. His physique was discovered on Dec. 28, 2019.
