A haunting image from Google Street View appears to show a man in a garden before he was decapitated and dismembered.

Officials found the decapitated body in the backyard of a Washington, DC home.

Washington, DC police believe the decapitated body found in the backyard was that of a handyman who was called home to workPhoto credit: Google Maps
The Google Street View photo was reportedly taken in July and shows the victim just months before he was killedPhoto credit: Google Maps
Dogs led investigators to knife evidence they believe may have been involved in the crime under the porch of a nearby homePhoto credit: fox 5

The victim was a handyman who was called to work indoors and his body is said to have been lying there for three months.

The Google Street View photo was reportedly taken in July and shows the worker just months before he was killed.

According to charges for Lavaughn Barnes, 32, dogs led investigators to knife evidence they believe involved in the crime under the porch of a nearby home.

The documents of the suspect arrested last week in connection with the discovered body learned that it is Abdulio Arias-Lopez.

Barnes lived in the house where Arias-Lopez worked, WRAL reported.

He lived in the basement, his sister and her daughter lived upstairs.

Barnes’ sister, when asked by authorities, identified the man in the Google Street View image as a handyman she’s known for five years.

She told them she last hired him in November, but as far as she knew, he never showed up for the job and stopped responding to their messages, according to WRAL.

When asked what happened when the handyman came to the house, Barnes admitted to killing Arias-Lopez in anger while he was working on the house in November.

Barnes recalled showing him paint because he wanted to paint the kitchen, according to ABC7.

As Arias-Lopez dumped the paint and walked away, Barnes tasered Arias-Lopez in the back.

The worker then asked Barnes why he was doing it, documents say.

Barnes replied that he was not in his right mind and began kicking and punching Arias-Lopez.

Before Barnes took his body to the basement, Barnes stabbed Arias-Lopez twice.

Barnes then went to an ACE hardware store to buy an ax to dismember Arias-Lopez’s body, court documents show.

Barnes was charged with second-degree armed murder.

Why Barnes was allegedly furious with the handyman remained unclear.

He told police he “passed out” when it happened.

Barnes said he panicked and recalled wondering, “What the hell did I just do?”

His sister told police he was “mentally challenged”.

He confessed to cutting off Arias-Lopez’s arms and then his head and tossing the body parts and his ID in the trash that garbage trucks took away, WRAL reported.

Barnes’ next court date is next month and he remains behind bars until then.

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Dark humor, street art, grainy beauty and misery in an ugly time.

By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.

When the order “Shelter in Place” was announced in San Francisco on March 16, 2020 and should last three weeks until April 7, 2020, two local business people, entrepreneurs and photographers, Basul Parik and Corky Engel, set off Photographing their haunted city from the streets when they encountered it. Three weeks became a year and thousands of photos.

Basul and Corky – both with long histories in photography, video, and book publishing – have now published a book of haunting, purposeful black and white photos of San Francisco during this ugly time called Flatten the Curve.

They gave me color versions of the photos, exclusive to WOLF STREET, and here are some of them, a wild, equally haunting drive through San Francisco during the lockdown, along with some black and white photos from the book.

Mission Street.

It’s getting serious: March 18th, 2020. Local markets.

Fisherman’s Wharf with no tourists.

Fisherman’s Wharf, Pier 39, dead.

Fisherman’s Wharf, restaurants and shrimp shops.

Barbershop on 18th Street.

Market street with no traffic.

Pan handle.

Homeless camp on fire.

Mission Street.

Union Street.

The great highway.

Castro theater.

Hayes Street between Octavia and Laguna Streets, May 3, 2020. Painted on boards covering a storefront.

Waller Street. Dodge the hell do?

Kirchenstrasse.

Montgomery Street.

Montgomery Street.

Dolores Park.

Grant Avenue.

Bruno’s nightclub, Mission Street.

Broadway and Kearny Street.

Polk Street.

Four bedroom home for sale, $ 14.2 million. Photo of the ad on Polk Street between Clay and Sacramento, taken February 15, 2021. Originally listed at that price in October 2020. As of May 1, it’s still for sale, according to Zillow.

Grant Avenue, China Town, February 2021.

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