NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Police in Virginia say a man involved in a domestic dispute set fire to a trailer and then decapitated himself with a cable around his neck.
York County deputies were called to the location of the dispute Tuesday morning and were told the man had left the scene.
He was located about 15 minutes later as deputies responded to a report of a trailer on fire at an intersection in the development, the Newport News Daily Press reported.
Deputies said the trailer was being towed by a white Ford Explorer driven by the man, who refused to get out of the vehicle.
As firefighters approached, they saw the man had a cable wrapped around his neck with the other end attached to a nearby tree.
He suddenly accelerated his vehicle and the cable pulled him from the driver's seat and decapitated him, police said.
The victim's name has not been released, but York County Sheriff Danny Diggs gave the man's age as 46 and said he had "most recently been living in Chicago."
