The home in the 17900 block of Valley Knoll Drive in Houston, Texas, where authorities say Arman Alexander Malik concealed his mother’s body (KRIV).
A Texas man has been accused of placing his mother’s body inside a duffel bag, covering it with sheets and then sleeping in a bedroom just across the hallway, according to authorities.
Arman Alexander Malik, 34, faces allegations of tampering with evidence and concealing a corpse in connection with the death of Dyna Sorto De Malik, court records show.
Deputies from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office went to a home in the 17900 block of Valley Knoll Drive on Sept. 1 after relatives requested a welfare check. Family members told investigators they had not heard from Sorto De Malik in several days and that she was not responding to phone calls or text messages, according to a probable cause arrest affidavit.
Sorto De Malik lived at the Houston-area residence with Malik. Deputies forced entry into the home and found Malik asleep in one of the bedrooms, authorities said. He was taken into custody. Investigators then searched a bedroom across the hall, where they detected an “odor consistent with a decaying or decomposing body” and saw sheets in the center of the room that appeared to have suspected blood on them.
Officers lifted up the sheets, saw a duffel bag and unzipped it and discovered a human arm, the affidavit stated. There was blood soaking underneath the bag which appeared to be pooling for “an extended period of time,” cops wrote. Investigators also saw blood spatter on a nearby dresser.
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Malik is also accused of disabling the home’s security system and obstructing the cameras that could have captured footage that showed what happened. He also allegedly put his mom’s phone on the setting where it locks for an hour when someone enters an incorrect password.
Cops tried to speak with Malik after they put him in the police car but found him unresponsive. He was rushed to the hospital where he was intubated, according to the affidavit.
An autopsy will determine Sorto De Malik’s cause and manner of death. The incident remains under investigation.
Malik has a court hearing scheduled for Tuesday.
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