Man Accused of Killing Mother Coated Physique with McDonald’s Wrappers, Trash ‘Out of Respect’: Cops

The girl’s son, Kevin Ahn, 31, was initially charged on April 3 after he allegedly drove his mom’s physique, in her automobile, to his sister’s residence advanced in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Kevin’s estranged sister in Penn Township contacted police after he arrived at her house shortly after 3 p.m. on March 24 of their mom’s 2022 Toyota Rav 4 and was “performing bizarre,” in response to a press launch from the Northern Lancaster County Regional Police Division.

The sister informed police that she and her brother, who she described as transient, have a strained relationship and he’s normally not welcome at her home. After an argument that day about him being there, she mentioned that Kevin left within the automobile earlier than returning once more at roughly 3:30 p.m.

At this level, the sister and her husband each confronted Kevin outdoors the residence. It was throughout this encounter, she informed police, that they observed what gave the impression to be an unresponsive individual mendacity throughout the again seat of the automobile “partially lined in family items” and trash, together with McDonald’s wrappers, bins, and a shoe.

In keeping with police, when questioned in regards to the perceived physique within the automobile, Kevin “fled the scene on foot,” at which level the couple contacted NLCRPD.

When police arrived, together with Warwick EMS, they found the physique of a deceased feminine, later recognized as Hyun Ahn. It was decided, per officers at a preliminary listening to final month, that she had been deceased roughly 30 to 40 hours on the time of her discovery.

A detective within the case informed the decide at this listening to that they’d discovered surveillance footage of Kevin together with his mom from a licensing and notary service workplace 48 hours earlier than her physique was found, per WGAL’s reporting.

After the physique’s discovery, Kevin was discovered working down the road close by and picked up by police, in response to their press launch.

He was held on preliminary prices of abuse of a corpse, pending post-mortem outcomes to find out the reason for demise. Her demise was decided to be the results of a murder by reason for strangulation and a traumatic mind damage, resulting in the extra prices.

Baltimore County State’s Legal professional Scott Shellenberger informed The Baltimore Solar on Saturday, per Regulation & Crime, that Kevin is dealing with the homicide and assault prices in Baltimore County, the place his mom lived. It’s believed she was killed there a while in March, per Shellenberger.

In that preliminary listening to for the abuse of a corpse prices final month, Kevin’s lawyer acknowledged in courtroom that his shopper had not abused his mom’s corpse, however was allegedly honoring her reminiscence in an unorthodox show of mourning, per The Day by day Voice.

He in contrast the show to “dressing up a skeleton,” saying that Kevin had “lined the physique out of respect” and hoped to have the ability to request a funeral.

First Deputy Assistant District Legal professional Cody Wade countered that this was “an exceptionally unusual argument,” saying that any affordable individual would categorical “outrage” over leaving a corpse in a automobile for 30 hours or extra.

All of this, after all, was when Kevin was solely dealing with these preliminary prices of abuse of a corpse, pending the post-mortem outcomes that culminated in his extra homicide and assault prices.

He’s nonetheless being held with out bail in Pennsylvania on the Lancaster County Jail on the preliminary abuse of a corpse prices.