Courtesy of HuffPost
A Connecticut murder suspect was arrested Tuesday night in Florida after allegedly killing a man with an axe and eating portions of the victim.
According to police in Bridgeport, Conn., 35-year-old Tyree Lincoln Smith was arrested in Lynn Haven, Fla., on a murder warrant issued by the Constitution State. The suspect was taken into custody without incident by local law enforcement and the U.S. Marshal Violent Crime Fugitive Task Force, police said.
The murder suspect, whose last known address is in Bridgeport, was being sought for the murder of 43-year-old Angel “Tun Tun” Gonzalez. The victim’s decomposed body was discovered on a mattress inside an abandoned apartment building on Jan. 20. The medical examiner’s office determined Gonzalez died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head.
According to the arrest warrant, Smith confessed to his cousin, Nicole Rabb, that he had killed Gonzalez with a hatchet in mid-December. He allegedly said he was sleeping on a porch of an abandoned apartment building when Gonzalez, a man he apparently did not know, woke him up and invited him in out of the cold. After entering the building, Smith allegedly attacked Gonzalez with an axe, police said.
Tyree allegedly told his cousin that the blows to Gonzalez’s head were “so severe that he was able to remove an eye from the man’s head along with pieces of brain matter and a piece of his skull,” the arrest warrant reads.
Photo: Bridgeport Police Department