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A 23-year-old man and his friend have been arrested in connection with the gruesome killing of his mother, whose body was cut up with a power saw and scattered in bags throughout their Bronx neighborhood, law enforcement officials tell NBC 4 New York.
Both men have admitted to chopping up the body and using a shopping cart to dump the parts along the curb in Morrisania, but each is pointing the finger at the other for killing the mother, 45-year-old Tania Byrd, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
The initial charges do not include murder. Bahsid McLean, 23, and William Harris, 26, are both charged with unlawful dissection of a human body, among other charges. They were in custody and lawyer information was not immediately available.
Law enforcement officials tell NBC 4 New York that the two men tell different stories. The son says he left the apartment he shared with his mother at about 3 a.m. Monday to go to the ATM. When he returned, he has told investigators, his friend had stabbed Byrd to death and threatened to kill him and his 6-year-old brother if he didn't help get rid of the body.
His friend, meanwhile, has told investigators that the son told him he killed his mother, and showed him a photograph of her, dead, asking for his friend's help in disposing of her corpse.
The two suspects agree that they went to a Bronx hardware store to purchase supplies for the job, including a power saw and gloves. Investigators say there are bloodstains at the apartment, and that it appears someone tried to clean up the mess with bleach.
An empty power saw box was also found there. The saw was found at the apartment of the friend's girlfriend, officials said.
Law enforcement officials say the pair cut up the body on Monday night and dumped it around 9:30 p.m. Surveillance camera video shows the son in the apartment building lobby, leaving the elevator with numerous bags, and then video outside the building shows two men wheeling away a shopping cart.
Officials say a man walking his dog along 158th Street in Morrisania early Tuesday morning came upon a plastic bag of what he thought were books. As he moved to open the bag, he noticed a vehicle circling the block and became nervous, so he took the bag around the corner and looked inside, finding two hands and a shoulder.
He sent his son to call police and continued walking the dog. About two blocks away on Eagle Avenue he and the dog came upon a suitcase, and the dog sat down next to it. The man opened the suitcase and found a woman's torso, wearing a bra, according to law enforcement officials.
Responding police found a plastic bag further down Eagle Avenue that contained a leg and a foot, and then nearby on Cauldwell Avenue, they found a black suitcase with a leg and the woman's head.
People who knew Byrd were stunned about the grisly killing.
"Every time you see her, she would have a smile on her face," said neighbor Chastity Agosto. "How could a son do that to his mother?
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Damn those 16oz sodas!!!!
JK, can't wait to see how this thread turns into an anti/pro gun debate.
Probably nothing to do with (1) 16oz sodas but maybe a lot to do with his mom telling him to (2) "SHUT THE D**n games off and go to sleep".
I will go with (2).
Another sign of the apocalypse.... or perhaps just symptoms of creeping socialism! Either way, I feel very sorry for what my kids and grand kids have to look forward to!
Marauding bands of demented socialists. LOL
Sacto, I thinks Sally was talking about the fact that this kid was happy not working and feeding off his mother and took extreme measures when faced with eviction.
Since obama took over there's about 100,000 people leaving the workforce every month because it's easier to be supported than supporting yourself. Granted... 99.9% of those folks won't be taking a chainsaw if forced to go back to work, but it seems like stories like this are becoming more commonplace!
Robin -
When you convincehalf a nation of people that they are not good enough to support themselves, you are taking a gamble on them reacting "poorly" when faced with having to support themselves.
You made the bed, now lie in it. One day Obama and his ilk, who desire keeping people dependent, may learn this. Just not soon enough.
Mayor Bloomberg has giving a news conference and has required background checks on power saws !
Hi Robin,
I don't see any mention in this article about the guy living off of his mom, nor being unemployed, nor facing eviction.
That aside, I'm fairly certain that freeloading off of one's mother does not qualify as socialism.
That aside, bringing POTUS into this discussion is further than a stretch in my view. This seems to be a story about human scum, not political policies.
Have a good day!
sactoJD, you have to dig a little deeper into the facts. Don't just rely on NBCNews 'lite' version.... the kid was told by his mom to get a job and get out.... he reacted negatively!
This is the trouble with short attention and low information folks, and unfortunately we have way too many of them.
Fuzzy,
"This is the trouble with short attention and low information folks..."
You're right, more people should get all the background available on this particular story. What's the world coming to!??
It seems like humans are de-evolving right before our eyes.
WTF is wrong with the children? Are they missing a gene or something?
I guess the 6 year old kid saw all this go down.
No getting over that.
sacto... perhaps you should read a real news outlet. Don't let MSNBCNews define your intelligence!
Very few comments.............................................. no gun involved.
No good EVER comes from GROWN SONS living with MAMA!!!
Why no pictures of the killers?
Yet another strike against Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes.
I call BS dude, Jessica Biel's ass looked incredible in that movie, it was totally worth the watch.
And that white t shirt in the scene where the sprinklers came on......JB's nipples must have been taped down....damn it......
Don't know if the son's story is true or not but I'm thinking suicide would be a better option than going thru with something like that. Forced or not
Dang! I guess Bloomberg is going to ban power saws next. Along with 44 oz sodas and forbidding Pizza Companies from delivering two liter bottles of soda with the Pizza.
Welcome to the Nanny State. Or as so often quoted in Demolition Man, "Be well Lanina Huxley!"
Crap! Now we're going to have to ban chainsaws!
I don't know how anyone could ever do something so awful to their own MOTHER!! I don't care if his friend supposedly killed her, then you help him cut her up?!? Unbelievable!
I very much doubt that the friend killed her. It is more likely that he helped cut her up, after the son did the murder...why would he go to the ATM at that hour of the morning? This story is bad on every level. The only thing worse are the people here, who made a joke of it and turned it into a political fest.
After you find a bag with body parts in it, you walk the dog a little further and open a suitcase? How bad do you need free books?
Am I the only one who would run home screaming?
That was my first thought too! Weird guy, huh?
His dog probably didn't finish his/her business yet.
Very strange (non)reaction indeed.
Not to mention, in another article, I read the dogwalker's son was 12. Who finds a bag of body parts, and sends their kid away. "Well son, there's a deranged killer in the neighborhood. Run along by yourself now. I'm going to keep walking the dog. Dee dee dee..." I would be scarred for life by that find!
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No, I thought it was a bit odd as well. I would be running right behind you and I don't think I would be looking in strange bags for the rest of my life, let along the same hour.
Thank goodness she wasn't shot, that would be really bad!
Kids are so jaded today. There's nothing off-limits anymore. I wish it was that easy to blame a 44 oz bottle of soda, but I'm afraid it's not. Broken marriages, kids having kids, and violent movies/games are a good start.
Actually, the root cause of the problem is the proliferation of subhuman zombies like these two. To call them animals would be insulting to all life on the planet. They can usually be spotted much younger, but most people turn a blind eye and hope they don't ever encounter the fully grown subhuman. But, since they still tend to live in the same 'hoods they were raised in, they also tend to cause trouble for those who still live there. Creatures like this need to be detected an age early enough that the necessary frontal lobotomy won't cause so much screaming and crying, and then if they continue to cause trouble, bolt 'em.
so they are the 47% that Romney talked about??
This feels like a scene directly out of American Psycho.
A 3:00 AM trip to the ATM sounds rather suspicious.
They cut up their own mother! Fiends!
Two psychopaths that were friends,gruesome and sickening.The mom somehow,somewhere in her life of raising the psychopath, must have realized that the had a problem.May she rest in peace and may these two receive life in prison or the death penalty.
I told you.. take away the guns and this what you get. People will wish the guns were back before it's all over.
Ban Power Saws!
What kind of a culture have we become that creates such demented people.
I guess they couldn't get a gun so they bought a power saw, SICK MF's!!
More deranged DemonKKKrats.
We must ban power saws!
This world is coming to an end and soon.
Put Biden in charge of The Saw Violence Committee.
Have Fienstien draft a bill banning assault chainsaws and circular saws with blades bigger than 6 inches.
All saw purchasers must have a background check.
Blaming a gun for crime is like blaming spoons knives and forks for the size of Rosie O'Donnell's ass.
Oh just send him to jail so he can rehabilitated.. He probably is such a nice young man..Give him a second chance..NOT!! Hang him in public!!!!
Question, do we need to control power saws like gun control?
And they say the death penalty is cruel and inhuman!!!
TL409, Ya know they know they have the right guys. They should push this case to the front of the line in the court system and march them right down the hall and strap them in the chair. This case should be an example.
The dog sat down next to the suitcase and began to worry. "If they can do that to one of their own, hope my master is not pissed at me," the dog thought.