“Prophet Of God” Beheads Woman In Tenerife Supermarket
by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
It was reported yesterday that a man beheaded a woman at a supermarket after swiping a knife and stabbing her. He then ran out of the store carrying the head before dropping the head and being stopped by security. The victim, who was in her sixties, has not been identified, and her murderer, Deyan Valentinov, was well known to the police in Tenerife which is part of the Canary Islands.
Valentinov was 28, homeless, and apparently mentally unstable.
One witness told a local radio station “I parked my car and saw a man running out with something bloody in his hands and a security guard chasing him. He threw it to the ground, it almost hit me and what he had been carrying was a woman’s head.”
Reports in Spanish media are that Valentinov has spent time in a psychiatric hospital and that he believed himself to be a “prophet of God.” Valentinov was known for harassing people in the street, and in one case, knocking out a man’s teeth. One of the people in the area, one Christina Perez, stated “Everybody is shocked. It’s a very safe area. You can usually go anywhere you want in the day or at night. This is really not normal.”
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