[UPDATE] Son Of Dismembered Woman Allegedly Took Photo With Her Head

Police investigate the bags containing bodies on Eagle Avenue on Tuesday

[UPDATE BELOW] Police have arrested the 23-year-old son of the woman whose dismembered body was found in four different bags in the Bronx on Tuesday, along with his 26-year-old friend. Neither the son, Bashid McLean, nor his friend, William Harris, have been charged with murder because the Medical Examiner is still determining how 45-year-old Tanya Byrd died. Both men are charged with unlawful dissection of a human body, and several reports indicate that police believe the men shared the role of cutting up Byrd's body. Police sources told the Post that McClean took a cellphone photo of himself "holding his mother's head under his arm like a trophy."

The Wall Street Journal reports that both men were questioned for hours, and both admitted to disposing of Byrd's body, but they accused each other of killing Byrd. According to the WSJ's police source, McLean said Harris arrived at the apartment he shared with his mother, and the two were supposed to enroll in a GED program. McLean allegedly said he left the apartment briefly and returned to find his mother dead, and that Harris told him he stabbed her because she complained about him selling marijuana. McLean said that Harris threatened to kill him and his 6-year-old brother if he did not help him dispose of Byrd's body, the source said.

Harris allegedly told police that McLean confessed to the killing to him, and that he agreed to help dismember the body, and accompanied McLean to a hardware store to buy supplies. Harris is also charged with possession of marijuana and criminal possession of stolen property, as he had Byrd's cellphone on him when he was detained.

Police reportedly found bloodstains and an electric saw blade in the apartment the mother and son shared, and noticed that a shower curtain was missing and that the residence "reeked of bleach." The law enforcement source said that Byrd's torso was found wrapped in a shower curtain.

Byrd worked as a home-heath aide, and her six-year-old son has Down Syndrome. Byrd's sister, Cassandra McLean, told DNAinfo that she believed that McLean had methodically planned her sister's death. “This was a premeditated murder. A year ago, he was looking up how to commit a murder without getting caught."

Byrd's sister added that she believed McLean is schizophrenic, and was angry at his mother for putting him in a foster home during his childhood. “He used to start fires for no reason at the group home where he lived...But my sister, as his mother, loved him so much. She thought nothing of this.”

[UPDATE]The Post is reporting that Bashid McLean has been charged with second-degree murder, and that police assert that he stabbed and dismembered his mother between 6 and 10 p.m. on Monday. McLean wore a Tyvek suit to his court appearance today, because, as his attorney Jerry Iannece said, “He kept urinating on himself."

Iannce said that McLean had been off medication for several days, and asked that he receive it while in custody, but it is not clear what medication he was referring to. “I didn’t do anything wrong!” McLean is quoted as saying during the hearing. “I don’t need anything at all. I didn’t do anything wrong.”