According to police and local reports, a Pennsylvania man allegedly murdered his mother and then drove to his sister’s house with her body inside the car, covering it with boxes, McDonald’s wrappers, and “household goods,” in what his lawyer has likened to “dressing up a skeleton.”
Kevin Ahn, 31, has been charged with first-degree murder, assault, and abuse of a corpse in connection with the death of his mother, Hyun Ahn, 61, in Maryland earlier this year, according to local NBC affiliate WGAL. The woman’s death was ruled a homicide due to strangulation and traumatic brain injury.
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According to Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger, Ahn is facing murder and assault charges in Baltimore County, where he lived in Owings Mills and allegedly killed the woman in March.
According to a police press release, Ahn’s estranged sister in Penn Township reported him to police following a “suspicious incident” at her residence on March 24 in the 100 block of Fruitville Pike.
The woman allegedly told cops that Ahn, who is “transient and not generally welcome at the home,” drove up to her house in their mother’s 2022 Toyota Rav 4 and was “acting weird.” According to police, the sister and her husband came outside to confront Ahn and allegedly saw “an unresponsive person positioned across the rear seat and floor” of his vehicle, “partially covered in household goods” and trash.
Ahn was initially charged with abusing a corpse in Lancaster County. He appeared at a preliminary hearing last month, where officers testified that his mother had been dead for at least 30 to 40 hours inside her vehicle before being discovered by Ahn’s sister and husband, according to The Daily Voice.
According to the Voice, Ahn’s attorney argued that he was mourning his mother in his own way, as if he was “dressing up a skeleton,” rather than abusing her corpse.
“Covered the body out of respect,” the lawyer allegedly stated.