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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
World
By David Flett & Ryan Fahey

Worker shot dead at Christmas while checking frozen pipes as he's mistaken for burglar

A maintenance worker was tragically shot dead on Christmas Eve after a resident of the building he was working on mistook him for a burglar.

Family man Cesare Montelongo, 53, from Texas, was gunned down in an awful case of mistaken identity while checking pipes at the Clayton Point Apartments in Grand Prairie, US.

The owner of the apartment spotted him on the balcony and thought he was trying to burglarise his home.

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