A nearly 9 hour standoff came to a disturbing end when police found the badly decomposed body of an elderly woman who had been dead since May.
Her son, Julius Harris, continued to live in the house.
Friday, he was accused of abuse of a corpse and fraud for cashing his dead mother's income checks.
Julius Harris is inside Metro Corrections facing two felony charges, one for abuse of a corpse and the second for cashing his dead mother's income checks.
It’s news that has not only shocked those who knew and loved this woman, but the entire community.
It was a scene no one in this neighborhood ever expected to see, police cars racing to this house on Cypress Drive when a man had a gun to his head. For nearly 9 hours, the man engaged police in a standoff.
At around 2:00 a.m., the man finally came outside and surrendered to police but when officers went inside the house, they made a gruesome discovery, the body of an elderly woman, badly decomposed.
Police say her son, Julius Harris, had been living in the house with his dead mother for 6 months and in that time, had been cashing her income checks.
The news comes as a shock to many who live in the neighborhood who had been trying to check on Sina Harris for months.
"For the past three or four months when I would call he would tell me that she was with some of her friends," said neighbor Loreda Carter.
Mary Maiden said, "I can't believe that its true." And say, she will be missed. "She was a very nice lady and we all, at the block watch, loved her. She was a sweet person," said Maiden.
Harris will be arraigned on the two felony charges Saturday morning.
