A 47-year-old man has been criminally charged in connection with a dismembered body found in a garbage bag in the back of a U-Haul truck in Philadelphia.
Taray Herring, 47, is charged with corpse abuse, burglary and related counts, according to a court note. A second man who was initially arrested was released without charge, a Philadelphia police spokesman told NBC10.
Sources told NBC10 that someone called the police on Wednesday because they were concerned about the man believed to be the victim. Officers did not find him at his home in northeast Philadelphia on Sanibel Street, but left after a neighbor told me he traveled frequently.
However, police said the same neighbor called them Thursday morning to report a suspected U-Haul truck near the house. Officers stopped the truck and checked the back, where they found the bag full of body parts and a weapon, investigators said.
A source aware of the investigation said police discovered more body parts in the dumpster of a Wawa store a few blocks away that same evening.
Police have not named the victim because the medical examiner is still identifying the body, a PPD spokesperson said.
Authorities removed several exotic pets from the Sanibel Street home on Friday. Neighbors told NBC10 that the man who lived there was known as a nice person and someone who “had never caused anyone any trouble.”
Herring is represented by the Defender Association of Philadelphia. The group told the Philadelphia Inquirer that it did not comment on the matter.