Man killed his uncle over mean comments and then stored the body in a recycling bin for over a week, police say

A Texas antheral is down bars aft shooting and sidesplitting his uncle and past hiding his assemblage successful a recycling bin successful the backyard for respective days, instrumentality enforcement successful the Lone Star State says.

Aquiminee La Roy Crawford, 26, stands accused of 2 counts of murder successful transportation with the decease of Derrick Crawford, according to the San Antonio Police Department.

The underlying incidental occurred astatine a residence connected Sterling Street successful the Colosseum Willow Park vicinity of eastbound San Antonio. There, authorities fishy the suspect shot and killed Crawford, 52, connected oregon astir May 9.

Over the weekend, constabulary responded to a 911 telephone made by the suspect himself, according to a constabulary study obtained by San Antonio-area ABC affiliate KSAT and Fox affiliate KABB.

When the officers arrived, Crawford told constabulary his uncle was "shot up successful the back," according to the apprehension report. Two officers noted the beingness of a "foul odor" coming from a recycling bin successful the backyard.

One of the officers tipped the bin over, instrumentality enforcement said. As the lid opened, a quality manus became visible. Inside the bin, officers recovered a dormant antheral with aggregate gunshot wounds; the man's corpse was wrapped successful aggregate achromatic garbage bags, constabulary said.

During an interrogation with constabulary connected Sunday night, the suspect admitted to getting a handgun from his chamber 2 Saturdays earlier and past shooting his uncle wrong the house, authorities said.

Crawford said helium killed his uncle due to the fact that helium was upset astir a remark the unfortunate made to him, according to the constabulary department.

While successful custody, the suspect told a detective that his uncle called him a "b– a– nephew," which caused him to "black out" and unfastened occurrence — yet shooting the antheral 5 times successful the surviving room, constabulary said.

At slightest 2 of those shots struck Derrick Crawford successful the thorax and head, authorities wrote successful the apprehension report.

The suspect besides said helium was aggravated with his uncle for regularly borrowing astir of his money, according to instrumentality enforcement.

Based connected the defendant's account, authorities recovered the weapon said to person been utilized successful the murder, a integrative container of spent ammunition casings and the uncle's cellphone from Crawford's bedroom, constabulary said.

Investigators corroborated the determination of the shooting by taking enactment of humor spatter connected the surviving country walls and ceiling arsenic good arsenic a sofa cushion drenched successful blood, according to instrumentality enforcement.

The victim's parent — who besides lives successful the location — was questioned and said she was unaware of the murder. Rather, the pistillate said, she and her household had been looking for the unfortunate for astir a week.

Crawford was initially booked successful the Bexar County Adult Detention Center for maltreatment of a corpse earlier the upgraded charges were aboriginal filed. He remains detained connected $250,000 bond.