A 47-year-old man has been charged with a dismembered body that was found filled in a garbage bag behind a U-Haul truck in Philadelphia.
Taray Herring, 47, is charged with body abuse, burglary and related charges, according to a court case. A second man was initially arrested without charge, a Philadelphia Police Department spokesman told NBC10.
Sources told NBC10 that someone called the police on Wednesday because he was worried about the man who is believed to be the victim. Officers did not find him in his home in northeast Philadelphia on Sanibel Street, but left after a neighbor told him he traveled often.
However, police said the same neighbor called them Thursday morning to report a suspicious U-Haul truck near the house. Officers stopped the truck and checked the back, where they found the bag full of body parts, as well as a weapon, investigators said.
A source with knowledge of the investigation said that police discovered several parts of the body in the dumpster of a Wawa store, a few blocks away later that night.
Police did not call the victim because the coroner is still identifying the body, a PPD spokesman said.
Authorities removed several exotic pets from the house on Sanibel Street on Friday. Neighbors told NBC10 that the man who lived there was known to be good and someone who “never gave anyone trouble.”
The herring is represented by the Philadelphia Defender Association. The group told the Philadelphia Inquirer that it did not comment on the case.