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Man kills himself by decapitation in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx

Witnesses state Tomas Rivera was decapitated after he tied a rope around a pole (at left) across from 521 Longfellow Ave. and drove off in his vehicle on Monday in the Bronx.
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Witnesses state Tomas Rivera was decapitated after he tied a rope around a pole (at left) across from 521 Longfellow Ave. and drove off in his vehicle on Monday in the Bronx.
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A man managed to behead himself in a spectacularly gruesome suicide in the Bronx Monday.

Tomas Rivera, 51, of upstate Port Jervis, tied a chain from his head to a pole, then hit the gas on his 2005 Honda CRV in Hunts Point, cops said.

He gunned it at 9:35 a.m., slamming into a parked vehicle on Longfellow Ave. near Randall Ave., police said. He was decapitated and died at the scene.

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