A Portland restaurant is mourning its head chef who was suspiciously found dead in a hospital parking lot.
Declan Perry, 27, ran the kitchen at the The Grill Room & Bar in the Old Port section of Maine’s largest city.
Perry’s body was discovered wrapped in blankets and bound with duct tape in the back seat of a parked car outside the South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Massachusetts, on Saturday afternoon.
Police said the car, a black 2019 Honda Civic, had Maine plates – and a bullet hole in the windshield along with blood on the steering wheel.
Cops say they have a suspect in the killing who knew Perry.
Friends describe the Portland man as a popular, talented kitchen mate.
A spokesman for The Grill Room told WMTW’s Jim Keithley he and his staff are shattered by the loss of their friend and colleague.
The staff asked for privacy during what they said is obviously a difficult time.
