Prosecutor: Two men charged with murder and dismemberment in Bronx

Two Bronx men have been charged with murder and other related offenses after allegedly killing and dismembering a man and then transporting his remains on a Metro-North train to Yonkers, the Bronx District Attorney's Office said Tuesday.

Muhammad Aadil, 40, and Ronei Harris, 18, were accused of killing Lutalo Henderson, 46, after an argument in Aadil's apartment in late July, the district attorney said.

“The defendants are alleged to have killed and mutilated a man and then transported some of his remains in a shopping cart on a Metro-North train to Yonkers, where they burned the cart,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark said in a statement. “This was a brutal disregard for a human being.”

The charges come nearly a month after the New York Police Department identified the man whose dismembered body was found by authorities at various locations in the Bronx and Yonkers. The killing shocked the city – and sparked outcry from Henderson's family.

Prosecutors said the suspects severed Henderson's legs, hands and jaw before wrapping his torso in garbage bags and pushing him into Yonkers in a shopping cart. Prosecutors also said they set fire to the cart containing the remains under the Oak Street Bridge.

Aadil was arraigned on Sept. 23. He faces charges including second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, concealing a human corpse and illegal possession of a controlled substance, prosecutors reported. He was held without bail and is scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 19. Harris is expected to be arraigned at a later date.

Aadil's attorney did not respond to a request for comment. Information about Harris' attorney was not immediately available.

According to the prosecutor's office, investigators were led to an apartment on Rogers Place in the Bronx, where they found additional body parts. Members of the New York Police Department and the Yonkers Police were involved in the investigation.