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'House of horrors': Man charged with decapitation of woman inside Philadelphia home
A man is facing charges after investigators say a woman was found decapitated inside a Philadelphia home Tuesday afternoon. A man, later identified as 34-year-old Ahmad Shareef, was arrested blocks away from the house. Prosecutors announced charges against Shareef hours after the brutal killing, including murder and abuse of a corpse. He is being held without bail.
PHILADELPHIA - A man is facing charges after investigators say a woman was found decapitated inside a Philadelphia home Tuesday afternoon.
The gruesome discovery was made at a property on the 300 block of Magee Avenue just before 1 p.m., according to police.
Officers found a 41-year-old woman with a ‘severed head’ on the kitchen floor of the home, police said.
A man, later identified as 34-year-old Ahmad Shareef, was arrested blocks away from the house.
Police say a 41-year-old woman was found decapitated inside a home in Philadelphia's Lawndale section.
Prosecutors announced charges against Shareef hours after the brutal killing, including murder and abuse of a corpse. He is being held without bail.
Neighbors who spoke to FOX 29 claimed Shareef was known for lewd, bizarre and sometimes threatening behavior.
"The older I got, the more I could see something was wrong in that house," Gabriel Ramirez said. "There are young girls in that house and I don't know what they've had to endure their whole lives."
Police say no children where home at the time of the gruesome murder. A witness reportedly helped identify Shareef, leading to a quick arrest.
"The adults in that house are completely unhinged," one neighbor said. "It's a house of horrors, I feel bad for those children, it's devastating."
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