Overview

• Officers responded around 4:20 p.m. Monday to a Cary Avenue address in West Brighton after a 911 call reporting a stabbing.
• Police found the 45-year-old in the bathroom with multiple stab wounds to the head and neck and a knife lodged in his neck, and confirmed he was decapitated.
• The teen was arrested at the scene after telling his younger sister he had "done something bad," according to sources who say she followed blood trails to the body.
• Investigators describe the case as domestic and note previous domestic-incident reports involving the family, with no prior arrests for the teen reported in some accounts.
• Friends say the victim was a longtime sanitation worker on disability after severe vision loss and nearing retirement, while relatives report the teen has a history of mental-health problems.