Son questioned after mom's dismembered body found
Published: 2013 February 26 23:36:49 (3784 Views)
A bag stuffed with human body parts was discovered on a Bronx street around 5 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013.
The butchered body was discovered about 5 a.m. Tuesday by a dog walker who spied a severed leg poking from a pile of garbage in the South Bronx.
The bag was left among a heap of other garbage bags and trashed furniture.
Cops responded to the report of the found leg and quickly located three garbage bags with additional remains, police sources said.
Police have identified the victim as 45-year-old Tanya Byrd.
The son of the devoted mom was being grilled by police on Tuesday after her dismembered body was found near his Bronx apartment, cops said.
Bashid McLean, 23, had called police and reported his mother, Tanya Byrd, missing, according to his aunt.
The brutal act stunned family members despite the suspect’s history of problems.
“He’s acted out in violent ways before, but I never thought he could do something like this,” said one relative. “Not in a million years.”
McLean — one of Byrd’s three children — suffered from learning disabilities and grew up in foster care, said his aunt, Cassandra McLean.
The dead woman, a private nursing aide, has two adult children and a 7-year-old son, Nasyr, with Down syndrome. Family and friends described Byrd as a caring parent who doted on her youngest child.
NYPD investigators were scouring her son’s second-floor apartment for clues.
- NYDaily
The butchered body was discovered about 5 a.m. Tuesday by a dog walker who spied a severed leg poking from a pile of garbage in the South Bronx.
The bag was left among a heap of other garbage bags and trashed furniture.
Cops responded to the report of the found leg and quickly located three garbage bags with additional remains, police sources said.
Police have identified the victim as 45-year-old Tanya Byrd.
The son of the devoted mom was being grilled by police on Tuesday after her dismembered body was found near his Bronx apartment, cops said.
Bashid McLean, 23, had called police and reported his mother, Tanya Byrd, missing, according to his aunt.
The brutal act stunned family members despite the suspect’s history of problems.
“He’s acted out in violent ways before, but I never thought he could do something like this,” said one relative. “Not in a million years.”
McLean — one of Byrd’s three children — suffered from learning disabilities and grew up in foster care, said his aunt, Cassandra McLean.
The dead woman, a private nursing aide, has two adult children and a 7-year-old son, Nasyr, with Down syndrome. Family and friends described Byrd as a caring parent who doted on her youngest child.
NYPD investigators were scouring her son’s second-floor apartment for clues.
- NYDaily
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