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Texas man fatally stabs friend during brawl over last piece of chicken: police

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This food fight ended with one man dead and another behind bars.

A Texas man fatally stabbed his friend for taking the last piece of chicken at dinner, authorities say.

Reinaldo Cardoso Rivera, 38, has been charged with murder in the death of 34-year-old Darwin Perez Gonzalez, according to reports.

Rivera, Gonzalez and three other men were in a Houston apartment fixing dinner and drinking when Rivera became incensed at Gonzalez over the final piece of chicken, cops say. They took their fight into the parking lot, where Rivera allegedly stabbed Gonzalez.

Rivera fled, but later turned himself into authorities. The alleged killer posed for his mugshot with a bandage over his blackened right eye.

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