BRONX, N.Y. — Two people have been indicted on murder and related charges after allegedly killing and dismembering a man, then transporting his remains on a Metro-North train to Yonkers, where they set the torso on fire, the Bronx District Attorney’s office announced Tuesday.
The suspects, Muhammad Aadil, 40, and Ronei Harris, 18, are accused of killing 46-year-old Lutalo Henderson following a dispute in a Bronx apartment. The defendants reportedly dismembered Henderson’s body, placing his torso in trash bags and transporting it in a shopping cart to Yonkers before burning it under the Oak Street Bridge, according to prosecutors.
“The defendants allegedly killed and mutilated a man, and then took some remains, in a shopping cart, on a Metro-North train to Yonkers where they burned the cart,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark said in a statement. “This was brutal disregard for a human being.”
Aadil was arraigned on September 23, facing charges including second-degree murder, manslaughter, concealment of a human corpse, and multiple counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance. He has been remanded and is scheduled to appear in court again on December 19. Harris is expected to be arraigned at a later date.
Investigators were led to an apartment on Rogers Place, where they recovered additional body parts. The case is being prosecuted by Senior Homicide Counsel George Suminski, under the supervision of the Homicide Bureau.
The investigation involved collaboration between the Bronx Homicide Squad and the Yonkers Police Department.
