An anger management therapist has been arrested after a homeless man was fatally shot in the US.
Travis McBride, 46, of DeLand in Florida, is accused of killing 51-year-old Clinton Dorsey, putting his body in the boot of his car and cleaning up the blood afterwards.
Police said McBride “will likely be charged with first-degree murder”, according to NBC News, Sky’s US partner network.
In court documents, officers said they received multiple 911 calls on Thursday, including one in which they were told a murder had taken place and that someone was “looking in the road cleaning up the blood off the ground and searching for shells”.
The caller identified the alleged killer as “Travis”, and said the victim was a person named “Clint” and that the perpetrator dragged the body across the road, put it in his car and left, according to the filing.
A woman said the suspect was standing in front of a DeLand address and, when asked for clarity by the 911 dispatcher, began whispering and said “a murder was committed last night”.
Police went to where the woman said the shooting occurred and saw “a large amount of drying water on the roadway”, noting it had not recently rained there.
They also found a spent shell casing.
The woman also said that a few hours before the shooting, McBride had come over to her home looking for Dorsey because McBride claimed Dorsey had put glass in a jar to hurt his dogs, the court documents said.
The witness told investigators that McBride said he was going to kill Dorsey.
The woman later told officers McBride allegedly threatened her and told her not to go to police.
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Mr Dorsey’s body was found in McBride’s 2016 Nissan Versa hatchback, according to the filing.
Multiple people who spoke to police said he was homeless.
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McBride is listed as a therapist at Starting Point Mental Health LLC, the company he owns in DeLand.
The firm’s website says McBride is an anger-management specialist, who also has expertise in post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, depression and sleep problems.
