A 24-year-old man in Wisconsin allegedly killed his girlfriend inside of the apartment they shared and police he’d been sleeping next to the victim’s body for about a month before he went to the police station and reported her dead.

Serkan Akcilad was taken into custody last month and charged with one count of first-degree reckless homicide and a modifier for use of a dangerous weapon in the slaying of Silan Tut, court records show. According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, Akcilad on Feb. 27 walked into the Milwaukee Police Administration Building and told the officer at the front desk that his girlfriend was dead inside their apartment in the 1300 block of North 10th Street. Akcilad is a Turkish national and used the Google Translate app on his phone to report the death.

“Akcilad advised that about 20 days prior he ran an errand leaving his girlfriend at their apartment. When he returned he found her dead on the floor,” the affidavit states. “Akcilad stated he had been gone about an hour and when he returned she was ‘lying on the floor covered in blood.’ Initially he thought [his girlfriend] was ‘joking’ and he tried to lift her up. Akcilad said [his girlfriend] was ‘cold as ice’ and he ‘fainted from shock.’”

Again, Akcilad told police that he discovered Tut’s body “about 20 days prior,” but claimed he didn’t report her death because he was “unfamiliar with the laws of this country.”

“The defendant said that he slept by the dead body of [Tut] on the floor where he initially found her,” the affidavit states.

Officers were dispatched to the apartment where they found Tut’s body lying supine with a pillow behind her head. The medical examiner determined that Tut suffered multiple stab wounds to the torso and neck and noted that the state of decomposition indicated she’d been dead about a month.

“The body appeared to have been staged,” police wrote. “During the search of the apartment no knives were located other than ‘extremely dull’ butter knives and the boxcutters.”