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Aug 8, 2008 7:40 pm US/Eastern

NYPD Investigating Possible Homeless Murder

Man's Lifeless Body Found Outside Queens Sikh Temple

Reporting
Pablo Guzman
NEW YORK (CBS) ― A man was found beaten to death outside a temple in Queens on Friday morning. Detectives found clues right on the sidewalk.

Police got the call before 6 a.m. that a man was dead on the sidewalk outside a Sikh temple at 117th Street off 95th Avenue in Richmond Hill, Queens.

There were clues: Pieces of a stick, one in some blood. More clues: The wounds to the man's head and eye. It all combines to tell detectives this man may have been killed. If so, the question for them now was: By whom? A distinct footprint was found in the blood.

Emergency Services cops were brought in to lift out the whole concrete block for evidence. The neighborhood was abuzz about a man who had been a familiar sight.

"Yeah, I see this guy, many times over at the Sikh temple," Manjit Singh said. "He's like – homeless."

The man was known to be homeless and often intoxicated. One young man said three or four such drunk and homeless men are in the neighborhood often, and sometimes argue with each other.

"There have been like a few fights, when they're drunk, when they drink," Koshun Mootoo said. "But nothing like this."

These homeless men are also non-practicing Sikhs. And they come here because the Sikh temple will give them a meal. An official at the temple had to call 911 four weeks ago when this same man, now dead, passed out from drunkenness outside his restaurant and smashed his face.

"So, he had problems with alcohol and he drank a lot, so that's the problem with him," Rajinder Singh said.

Officially, police are waiting for the autopsy results from the medical examiner, but unofficially they're treating this as a homicide.

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