TORONTO – A U.S. man is facing homicide charges in the death of his stepfather, who was found beaten with his own underwear pulled over his head and neck.
Police said the suspect was invited to his stepfather’s home for drinks, where the men became involved in an argument which led to an altercation, The Oklahoman reports.
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Brad Davis, 33, told police his stepfather “came at him” and a fight broke out.
Davis told police he struck Denver Lee St. Clair in the head, causing him to lose consciousness, then proceeded to give him an “atomic wedgie.”
“I’d never seen this before … the waistband of his underwear was around his neck,” Mike Booth, Pottawatomie County Sheriff, told the newspaper.
St. Clair died from blunt force trauma to the head and asphyxiation.
An atomic wedgie occurs “when one is still in underwear and someone pulls up on the waistband and tries to pull it over the receivers head,” according to Urban Dictionary.
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