Post by Editor on Mar 2, 2013 17:04:59 GMT
PICTURED: The grisly photo of smiling son showing off his mother's bloody head after 'he chopped up her corpse with a power saw'
Bahsid McLean, 23, is charged with murdering his mother Tanya Byrd, 45, and chopping up her body into pieces
Cops found gruesome pictures of the man and his mother's body on his cell phone
Byrd's head, torso, hands, and leg were found in at least four travel and plastic bags strewn among garbage in South Bronx
Pal William Harris, 26, is charged with helping to cover up the grisly crime
McLean wore a black plastic garbage bag to court on Friday and made several outbursts
He is on suicide watch and hadn't been taking his medication, his lawyer said
By HELEN POW and DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 15:58, 2 March 2013 | UPDATED: 16:27, 2 March 2013
A gruesome photo emerged on Saturday showing the Bronx man accused of killing and dismembering his mother's body, smiling and displaying the head of the dead woman.
Bahsid McLean, 23, posed in front of the bathroom mirror holding the bloody head of his slain mother, Tanya Byrd, like a trophy and used his phone to snap the grisly photo as a keepsake, in the image leaked to the New York Post.
McLean has been charged with killing Byrd, 45, after an argument in which the mother told her son to grow up and move out of her apartment in the Morrisania neighborhood in the South Bronx.
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Grisly: Bahsid McLean snaps a picture of himself holding up his dead mother's bloody head
A law enforcement official said the shocking photo is just one of several images found on McLean's cell phone.
'I lost sleep over it. Just sheer inhumanity. It’s horrible what he did to her,' the source told the Post.
Police say that after McLean stabbed the woman to death, likely on late Saturday or on Monday, he cut up her body with a power saw and scattered the body parts around his Bronx neighborhood.
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Then he and a pal allegedly stuffed the woman's body parts into three heavy-duty garbage bags, some of which were zipped inside luggage, and dumped them in at least four different locations in Morrisania, where they were discovered early Tuesday morning by a dog-walker.
McLean appeared in court on Friday for his arraignment, claiming that 'didn't do anything wrong.'
Wearing a black plastic garbage bag to the hearing because he kept urinating on himself, he is being held on suicide watch after the horrific attack earlier this week on his mom.
Nothing wrong: Bahsid McLean. pictured leaving court on Friday, told the judge he did nothing wrong
Alleged accomplice: William Harris, pictured, allegedly helped in the chopping
Incontinent: Bahsid McLean, pictured, was incontinent in court
The mentally ill man told the judge that Byrd was dying and that he was trying to help her, though it was unclear what she was supposedly dying of.
McLean's defense attorney Jerry Iannece said his client, who is undergoing a psychological evaluation, was off medication but he didn't disclose what the 23-year-old had been taking.
The lawyer admitted it was a 'troubling' case but insisted to CBS News that his team would 'investigate it and defend it thoroughly.'
During the court appearance, McLean made several other outbursts and was ultimately ordered held without bail.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287038/Tanya-Byrd-The-grisly-photo-smiling-son-showing-mothers-bloody-head-chopped-corpse-power-saw.html
