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The Bronx man accused of killing and dismembering his mother before taking a picture of himself with her severed head appeared in court today in nothing but a garbage bag.
Even as Bahsid McLean, 23, added another bizarre chapter to his gruesome caper, shuffling into court in makeshift shoes and a plastic trash sack, the sick suspect still managed to profess his innocence.
“I didn’t do anything wrong!” McLean blurted out after his lawyer asked for the suspect’s medication. “I don’t need anything at all. I didn’t do anything wrong.”
As for the trash sack he wore — much like the bags he and a friend allegedly used to ditch the victim’s mutilated body — “He kept urinating on himself,” said defense lawyer Jerry Iannece, who didn’t even challenge a judge’s order to remand the suspect.
Prosecutors said McLean stabbed his mom, Tanya Byrd, 45, to death, then dismembered the body in a futile effort to cover up the heinous crime.
McLean was charged with second-degree murder, unlawful dissection of a human body and hindering prosecution.
McLean’s pal, William Harris, 26, also appeared in court on charges that he helped McLean chop up the body with a brand new power saw, and toss it out with neighborhood trash.
McLean lived with his mother and 7-year-old autistic brother in a Morrisania apartment on Westchester Avenue.
Cops said the boy was home during both the murder and the dismembering, but did not witness the brutal acts.
There, according to court papers, he killed his mother, chopped up her body and took a cell phone picture of himself holding her severed head.
Byrd’s daughter, Porscha Lovett, 26, a home health aide, said she was sickened at the sight of her butchering brother.
“I saw him at the precinct,” Lovett said. “He showed no remorse. He said nothing. He acted like he didn’t know what I was talking about. I hate him. He is not even my brother.
“He was jealous that my mom took such good care of my little brother. He had so much resentment because she wasn’t there when we were young. He couldn’t understand why she wasn’t there for him.”
She said the boy is staying with friends of Byrd. Lovett said she talked with her mother just days before she died.
“In our last conversation she told me life is so short, you are here today, gone tomorrow,” Lovett said. “She told me she loved me and she’d talk to me later.
As for her mother’s past problems Lovett said she had let it all go.
“I forgave my mother for everything,” she said.