Teh One Who Knocks
01-08-2016, 11:55 AM
By Corey Charlton for MailOnline
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Police are probing the bizarre murder of a man killed by his friend after he taunted him with his worst fear - a lemon.
Identified only as M.O., the man was charged after he was arrested and told police he could not stand the sight of the fruit, adding that lemons 'make me crazy'.
His friend Ramazan Kavakalan, a 42-year-old forestry worker, had tried to provoke him with the fruit as a joke, police claim.
M.O. was arrested after first escaping from the scene of the crime then handing himself in to the Turkish gendarmerie in Manisa Province.
A police spokesman in Izmir, where the murder occurred on the Aegean coast, said: 'Kavakalan knew that M.O. had a phobia about lemons and showed him one as a gag.
'He had no idea that his gag would cost him his life.
'He was at the timber yard collecting wood products for transport when the lemon was shown to him and he went ballistic.'
Police say the affronted trucker turned on his heels and walked back to his truck where he extracted a rifle in the cab.
He then walked back into the office where Mr Kavakalan was sitting at his desk and shot him with a single bullet.
Fatally wounded, Mr Kavakalan later died later in the Torbali State Hospital after being raced to the emergency room by an ambulance.
Doctors fought for four hours to save the life of the married father-of-one but they were unsuccessful.
In his statement to police, M.O. said: 'I didn’t have the intention to kill him. I just wanted to scare Ramazan after the lemon joke he made.
'I am so sorry that I have killed my friend. It is the lemon you see. I cannot stand the sight of them. They make me crazy.'
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Police are probing the bizarre murder of a man killed by his friend after he taunted him with his worst fear - a lemon.
Identified only as M.O., the man was charged after he was arrested and told police he could not stand the sight of the fruit, adding that lemons 'make me crazy'.
His friend Ramazan Kavakalan, a 42-year-old forestry worker, had tried to provoke him with the fruit as a joke, police claim.
M.O. was arrested after first escaping from the scene of the crime then handing himself in to the Turkish gendarmerie in Manisa Province.
A police spokesman in Izmir, where the murder occurred on the Aegean coast, said: 'Kavakalan knew that M.O. had a phobia about lemons and showed him one as a gag.
'He had no idea that his gag would cost him his life.
'He was at the timber yard collecting wood products for transport when the lemon was shown to him and he went ballistic.'
Police say the affronted trucker turned on his heels and walked back to his truck where he extracted a rifle in the cab.
He then walked back into the office where Mr Kavakalan was sitting at his desk and shot him with a single bullet.
Fatally wounded, Mr Kavakalan later died later in the Torbali State Hospital after being raced to the emergency room by an ambulance.
Doctors fought for four hours to save the life of the married father-of-one but they were unsuccessful.
In his statement to police, M.O. said: 'I didn’t have the intention to kill him. I just wanted to scare Ramazan after the lemon joke he made.
'I am so sorry that I have killed my friend. It is the lemon you see. I cannot stand the sight of them. They make me crazy.'