MIAMI – A Key Largo man was flown to a Miami hospital Wednesday morning after suffering a mysterious head injury.
Daniel Rivero, 47, told a Monroe County Sheriff's Office deputy that he went to bed Tuesday about 9:30 p.m. and later woke up "feeling like he had been hit with something."
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When Rivero tried to get out of bed, he couldn't stand and noticed a large amount of blood coming from an injury to his head.
Rivero suffered a laceration on the left side of his head and a fractured skull.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Becky Herrin said that when deputies arrived, they found Rivero sitting on the stairs of his apartment building. He was taken to Mariner's Hospital before being transferred to a hospital in Miami.
Detectives are investigating the circumstances that led to Rivero's injury.
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