According to his obituary in The Ledger, Stephan Merrill, 31, of Winter Haven, passed away by an uppercut from Batman on Feb. 12.
No, it wasn’t a typo or mistake.
“He would have been honored to have died by an uppercut from Batman,” said his fiancée, Stephanie Vella.
Merrill died suddenly and the family didn’t have an official cause of the death when they went to Ott-Laughlin Funeral Home in Winter Haven to make funeral arrangements.
So it became Batman’s fault.
“Everyone was starting to get a little tense. We didn’t have a cause of death but we were told we had to have one,” said Brandon Moxam, a close friend of Merrill.