Son Admits to Killing, Dismembering Mother

By Matthew Lysiak , Thomas Tracy AND Larry Mcshane / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

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A bag stuffed with human body parts, believed to be Tanya Byrd, was discovered on a Bronx street around 5 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013.

February 27, 2013 Updated Feb 27, 2013 at 11:38 AM PDT

A schizophrenic man confessed Tuesday to dismembering his mom and scattering her body parts in garbage bags across the South Bronx in New York, police sources said.

Bashid McLean, 23, implicated himself in the gruesome death after investigators recovered a saw inside the apartment where he lived with victim Tanya Byrd and his 7-year-old brother, Nasyr.

A bag stuffed with human body parts, believed to be Tanya Byrd, was discovered on a Bronx street around 5 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013.

Cops also found a shopping cart used to lug 52-year-old Byrd’s severed body parts from their home to four locations within walking distance of the murder scene, police sources said.

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