Woman, 27, killed by lawnmower at Modesto park in apparent freak accident

She was apparently sleeping in the grass and the guy on the tractor somehow didn't see her. He didn't even notice that he had run over someone until minutes later.

Worse yet? Her family visited the spot where she was killed and were horrified to find bits and pieces of bone left over from the incident.

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A vigil was held Friday for a California woman who was fatally run over by a lawn mower in a park July 8, according to ABC 10 News.

Christine Chavez, 27, was sleeping in the grass at Beard Brook Park in Modesto around noon Saturday July 8 when she was apparently cut to pieces by a landscaper on a lawnmower, according to the ABC 10 news report. Local police reportedly said a Grover Landscape Services Inc. (GLS) employee was cutting the grass using a mower hitched to the back of a John Deere tractor. The employee says he saw a body in an area he had already mowed and then called 911, the outlet reported.

Dez Martinez, a formerly homeless person and now CEO & founder of We Are Not Invisible explained why Chavez was sleeping out in the park in the daytime, saying, “We have to stay up all night because it might be dangerous to sleep at night, because you might be raped, stabbed, murdered. When the daytime comes, it’s time to go to sleep, it’s broad daylight, there’s a lot of traffic, a lot of people,” per the report.

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