The man, identified as 23-year-old Damon Perry, told police he had been binge-watching "The Walking Dead" on Netflix recently.
Grants police originally responded to a Grants apartment complex after 911 callers said a man - later identified as Perry - was running around the complex threatening people with a knife.
When officers arrived, two maintenance workers were holding Perry down. Inside a nearby apartment, an officer found the friend unresponsive with signs of trauma. The friend was pronounced dead at the scene.
Perry was taken to police headquarters and interviewed. There, he told detectives that while the two were drinking the friend began "to change into a zombie" and tried to bite him, according to police.
He allegedly then punched and kicked the friend, and also hit the friend with an electric guitar and microwave, among other household items, according to police.
The friend has not been identified pending notification of their next-of-kin.
Perry has been charged with an open count of murder and is being held at the Cibola County Detention Center.
I'm surprised the cops didn't think the guy was infected after being bitten and didn't kill him too before he "turned".
As a side note, this may be one of the things the strobe lights, mentioned by the Cs once, are "good" for.
Once you're in a state of trance, just watching a TV show may be enough to turn you into a killer.