Police discover a gruesome murder outside a southwest Houston apartment

Police taped off a portion of a parking lot behind Sharpstown Mall on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, in Houston. Two men were expected to survive after having been shot Thursday in a drug-related shootout at an apartment complex across the street from a mall, police said. The shooting was initially reported as an attempted carjacking in the mall's parking lot. But investigators later determined the two unidentified men were injured during a gun battle involving up to five people inside an apartment at a complex across the street from Sharpstown Mall in southwest Houston, said Houston Police Capt. Bruce Williams. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Sharon Steinmann )

A man was discovered nearly decapitated outside a southwest Houston apartment complex overnight.

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Houston police were dispatched around 2 a.m. to a parking lot in the 6100 block of Marinette Drive, according to the Houston Chronicle.

The man had been killed in an “edged weapon attack,” police said.

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In addition to the gruesome finding, police quickly saw that the man was wearing no clothes.

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