SAN ANTONIO — Authorities are investigating the discovery of what appeared to be human remains at a local plumbing business on Monday afternoon.
Officers were dispatched around 1:30 p.m. outside the Harrell Commercial Plumbing off North San Jacinto Street and West Poplar Street after receiving reports of the grim find from an employee.
Walter Stephens, the employee who found the remains, says he made the grim discovery while he was cutting grass and did not realize what he had found at first.
“I was cutting grass and then I saw something that looked like a dried cantaloupe” Stephens said.
After realizing what he had found, Stephens ran inside to get his boss and they called police.
“It was just like a weird feeling, like, oh my god, I found the skull, like on a Monday even, you wouldn’t expect to find that in a million years,” Stephens said. “When I picked it up, I felt like this, like energy. “Like I let the spirit go or something. It wasn’t like an evil feeling or anything. It was like peaceful, like a peaceful, easy feeling, like the Eagles.”
When San Antonio Police officers and park police arrived, they confirmed the presence of what seemed to be a decomposing skull and later discovered additional possible body parts at the site.
“They found a leg bone or something in the water down there, and then a little bit more down the ways, is where they found the rest of the remains,” said Stephens. “That’s probably what it was – a real homeless person that was down on their luck, you know, and didn’t have anything.”
The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office was called to the scene to collect evidence and determine whether the remains are human.
