Coolidge Dormitory residents found a severed, skinned goat's head in the central 14th floor women's bathroom sink Sunday night. Those responsible for the action are unknown.
"It was a shaved head, eyeballs and all," resident Chantelle Frechette said. "I saw some strange people on the floor. The floor went crazy [when it was found] and I walked in and saw the head in the sink. It was gross, just sitting in the sink."
A female resident walked into the bathroom sometime after 8 p.m. and saw the head sitting in the middle sink in the bathroom. She notified her resident assistant, who called the University of Massachusetts Police Department at 9:13 p.m.
An officer arrived on the scene shortly thereafter to bag and remove the head for destruction. "There were cops and stuff bagging up the head," another resident, Erin Glynn, said.
"The girl [who saw it first] came in and she said, 'there's a head in the sink,'" resident Aaron Cohen said. "It had no skin and it took up the whole sink."
"Where do you even get something like that?" he said.
Several residents mentioned that there were strange men on the floor not long before the incident, but it is unknown if they are the parties responsible for it. "I saw some shady guy walk by, but I don't even know if it was him," resident Danielle Angus said. "It wasn't anyone on our floor because that's disgusting."
"I saw some strange people on the floor, but I'm not even sure if they had anything to do with it," Frechette said.
Residents were shaken up by the incident, according to Angus. "We were all flustered, but we're doing okay," she said.
Resident assistants and resident directors offered no comment, referring statements to Ron Trunzo, the Southwest area director. "A student found it in the bathroom and reported it to the RA, who reported it to police. That's all we really know right now."
UMass police spokespeople could not be reached for comment.
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