An employee at a San Antonio plumbing business found what appeared to be a human skull outside the building, prompting a police investigation.

Walter Stephens, an employee at Harrell Commercial Plumbing on North San Jacinto Street, said he was cutting the grass when he spotted something unusual near the building’s entrance.

“I saw what looked like a dried cantaloupe or something,” Stephens said. “I picked it up, and the bottom part of the jaw stayed on the ground. When I turned it over and saw the teeth, I was like, ‘Oh my God.’”

Stephens said he immediately alerted his employer, Brad Harrell, vice president of the company, who contacted San Antonio police.

“You don’t think you’re going to see a human skull, ever really,” Harrell said. “There was no skin or anything on it. It had been

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