JACKSON, Miss. — A stray dog in Mississippi was seen carrying a severed arm on Saturday, prompting police to launch an investigation and pinpoint who the remains belong to.
The victim is 53-year-old Scott Allen Tyler, said Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart.
A video of the dog carrying the arm in its mouth was shared online.
According to WAPT-TV, an ABC affiliate in Jackson, the body’s arm was found on a street near the abandoned house but the head hadn’t been found as of Monday morning.
During the ensuing investigation, authorities discovered a decapitated body in a nearby abandoned house in the woods, said Deric Hearn, deputy Jackson police chief.
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“That is a very graphic and brutal picture, the mutilation of a body,” said Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba at a Monday news conference. “My reaction is one of disgust, is one of concern. It’s not something you grow accustomed to. It’s never something you want to grow accustomed to.”
The Jackson Police Department and the Hinds County Corner are still investigating the incident and had not located the head as of Wednesday afternoon.
Hearn also told WAPT-TV that the case is Jackson’s 117th homicide this year.
