--- title: Houston Man Killed for Taking the Last Piece of Chicken description: It started a fight that led to the stabbing canonical: https://time.com/4099135/man-stabbed-to-death-for-taking-the-last-piece-of-chicken/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-04T00:21:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:35.460Z og:title: Man Stabbed to Death for Taking the Last Piece of Chicken og:description: It started a fight that led to the stabbing og:url: https://time.com/4099135/man-stabbed-to-death-for-taking-the-last-piece-of-chicken/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Stabbed to Death for Taking the Last Piece of Chicken twitter:description: It started a fight that led to the stabbing twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Man Stabbed to Death for Taking the Last Piece of Chicken  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Nov 4, 2015 12:21 AM CUT  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Nov 4, 2015 12:21 AM CUT A Houston man has been arrested for [stabbing another man](http://www.khou.com/story/news/crime/2015/11/02/man-killed-for-taking-last-piece-of-chicken-at-dinner/75036070/ "undefined") for taking the last piece of chicken at dinner. Darwin Perez Gonzalez, 34, was stabbed and killed in a fight that started when he took the last piece of chicken at a dinner with friends, according to KHOU News, a Texas CBS affiliate. Reinaldo Cardoso Rivera, 38, reportedly became angry that there was no more chicken, and the disagreement escalated into a fistfight in the parking lot. Rivera allegedly stabbed Gonzalez and fled, then returned to the scene and told the police what happened. Rivera is in police custody and has been charged with murder, according to [ABC news](http://abc7.com/news/fight-over-last-piece-of-chicken-ends-in-killing/1064719/ "undefined"). It not apparent yet whether he has a lawyer. \[[KHOU](http://www.khou.com/story/news/crime/2015/11/02/man-killed-for-taking-last-piece-of-chicken-at-dinner/75036070/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4099135/man-stabbed-to-death-for-taking-the-last-piece-of-chicken/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4099135/man-stabbed-to-death-for-taking-the-last-piece-of-chicken/"},"headline":"Man Stabbed to Death for Taking the Last Piece of Chicken","datePublished":"2015-11-04T00:21:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:35.460Z","description":"It started a fight that led to the stabbing","url":"https://time.com/4099135/man-stabbed-to-death-for-taking-the-last-piece-of-chicken/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Murder","Crime","Chicken"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4099135/man-stabbed-to-death-for-taking-the-last-piece-of-chicken/","name":"Man Stabbed to Death for Taking the Last Piece of Chicken"}}]}] ```