NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER: Neighbors Asked To Help Dispose Of Murder Victim’s Body
According to one of his neighbors in Tacoma, WA, about an hour after they heard what they thought were firecrackers, Anthony Tyrone Clark, 20, showed up at their front door and asked “if we would help him, that he just killed somebody and there was a dead body in his house, and if we would help him dispose of the body in the trash can alley. He was really calm and laughing about it, so we thought it was a joke at first.”
But it was no joke, reports The News Tribune (Tacoma):
Clark also asked his neighbors to help him sell some crack cocaine.
The neighbors thought Clark was joking about the body. Later, a neighbor went to the trash can and found what appeared to be a body.
That body belonged to 16-year-old Devondre D. Davis, whom Clark (allegedly) had shot in the back of the head for reasons that are unclear to prosecutors:
Detectives searched the apartment and found a bloodstain on the floor near a bedroom closet. They also found a bloody shirt and towel, and a shell casing. They located a gun in the toilet tank. …
[Clark] told detectives Davis had arrived at the apartment with rock cocaine and a gun. Clark said Davis was near the bedroom closet because they were looking for Clark’s mother’s jewelry to steal and sell, charging documents state.
Clark, who pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of a controlled substance is in custody in lieu of $2 million bail.
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