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<h6>Bahsid McClean enters the courtroom for the start of his trial in Bronx Supreme Supreme Court</h6>
<h4><strong> <span style="color:#1c0202;">Bronx man who beheaded mom, then snapped a selfie with severed head is insane, his lawyer says </span></strong></h4>
<p><strong><span style="color:#1c0202;">The accused killer, Bahsid McClean, fatally stabbed his mom, Tanya Bird, 52, in the neck after she told him he made a lousy father</span></strong></p>
<h4><strong><span style="color:#1c0202;">McClean, then 23, a schizophrenic confessed to dismembering his mom and scattering her body parts in garbage bags across the South Bronx, NYC</span></strong></h4>
<h4><strong><span style="color:#1c0202;">Investigators recovered a saw inside the apartment where he lived with victim and his 7-year-old special needs brother<br />
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<h4><strong><span style="color:#1c0202;">Cops also found a shopping cart used to transport severed body parts from their home to four locations within walking distance of their home</span></strong></h4>
<h4><strong><span style="color:#1c0202;">McClean admits cutting mother into pieces, spreading her parts around the South Bronx, says he did no wrong in killing her </span></strong></h4>
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<article id="ra-body">A deranged man from Bronx New York who dismembered his own mother, then snapped a selfie with her severed head was mentally ill and didn’t know right from wrong, his lawyer argued in Bronx Supreme Court,Thursday.<br />
In her opening statement, defense attorney, Lynn Calvacca, asked “Does this look like someone who knows what he is doing is wrong?” holding up a photo of a smirking Bahsid McLean posing with his mother&#8217;s disembodied head.</p>
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<h6 class="ra-caption">Cops discovered the disturbing photo of Bahsid McClean posing with the severed head of his mother on his cell phone</h6>
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<p>McLean, 26, is charged with killing and dismembering his mother, 52-year-old home health aide Tanya Byrd, inside their apartment on Feb. 26, 2013.<br />
Calvacca argued in her opening statement that jurors should acquit McLean by reason of mental defect or disease.<br />
Bashid McClean, a schizophrenic confessed to dismembering his mom and depositing her body parts, stuffed in garbage bags across the South Bronx<br />
McLean, 23, implicated himself in the gruesome death after investigators recovered a saw inside the apartment where he lived with victim Tanya Byrd and his 7-year-old brother, Nasyr.<br />
Cops also found a shopping cart used to distribute Tanya Byrd’s severed body parts to four locations within walking distance of their home</p>
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<h6 class="ra-caption">Tanya Bird, killed and dismembered by her manic son</h6>
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<p>Calling her client “broken” Calvacca said McLean had been hearing voices since he was 10 years old, and had been treated at various mental hospitals ever since.<br />
The Prosecution however called the killing “cold-blooded,” arguing that McLean knew exactly what he was doing when he thrust the knife into his mother&#8217;s neck.<br />
Relatives of the home health aide packed the gallery as a stone-faced McLean, wearing a gray sweater, stared down at the defense table in front of him.<br />
At one point, he whipped out a plastic comb to brush his goatee.<br />
Assistant District Attorney Aaron Kaplan told the court the defendant fatally stabbed his mother in the neck after she told him he made a lousy father.<br />
After the cold blooded killing, he went to a hardware store and bought a two-foot jigsaw, which he used to carve up the corpse. Next, he stuffed Byrd&#8217;s chopped-up remains into bags<br />
Curiously, the accused killer, sporting a smile, paused to take a selfie, holding up his mother’s detached head like a trophy. Cops later discovered the disturbing photo on his cell phone.</p>
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<h6 class="ra-caption">Bashid McLean, 23, when he was arrested by police in 2013</h6>
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<p>He allegedly dumped the severed limbs and torso in garbage dumps across the South Bronx and fled in an SUV.<br />
Although McLean called police to report his mom was missing, he quickly emerged as the prime suspect in the heinous crime. The victim&#8217;s remains were later found in four separate duffel and garbage bags dumped around the neighborhood.</p>
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<p>At the crime scene, one neighbor said “I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Bahsid killed her”. According to the 43-year-old woman who lives in the same building “She was afraid of that boy. . .He was a hellion.”<br />
Tanya Byrd was terrified of her older son Bashid McLean, who was on probation after attacking two cops with a knife in 2010. She suspected that he was battering little Nasyr. The younger brother has Down syndrome, according to the neighbor.<br />
“Bashid had a problem controlling his rage,” said the neighbor. “He had creepy eyes. Didn’t like to look you in the eye, but when he did, they went right through you.”<br />
The brutal killing left McLean’s family members reeling, despite a history of aggression and mental health issues.</p>
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<h6><strong>Tanya Byrds remains was dumped in garbage skips around South Bronx</strong></h6>
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<h6><strong>Bahsid McClean scattered his mother&#8217;s dismembered body parts around four garbage dumps</strong></h6>
<p>Speaking earlier His aunt Cassandra McLean, 53, said Bahsid nursed a grudge against her sister over his placement in foster care while his mom battled a drug problem. They reunited when he turned 18.<br />
“I want people to know my sister was a good mother,” said Cassandra McLean. “She always took care of him.”<br />
Today she added that her nephew was a danger to society who should be put away for life.<br />
&#8220;If he could do that to his own mother, imagine what he could do to a stranger&#8221;.<br />
“I don&#8217;t hate him,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I pity him.”<br />
“He did destructive things,” said his father, James McLean. “He set fires; nobody could control him. ”<br />
His sister, Porsche Lovett, who visited him at the station house, soon after his arrest said her brother showed no remorse he murdered their mom:<br />
“He looked me in the eyes and told me he did nothing wrong when he killed her,” she added. “I don’t know who he is.”<br />
The trial continues</p>
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Bahsid McClean, who fatally stabbed his mom in the neck then snapped a selfie with severed head is insane, his lawyer says
