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A Florida therapist who specializes in anger management has been charged with murder for allegedly shooting a man to death as part of an ongoing dispute and then stuffing his body in his car.
Travis McBride, 46, the owner of Starting Point Mental Health in DeLand, was arrested after police responded Thursday morning to a call about a “suspicious” incident at a home on South Frankfort Avenue.
“There’s been a murder that happened,” a caller told police, WESH reported.
“We got a couple of eyewitnesses, and I believe … the person right now he’s looking at the road, cleaning up the blood off the ground.”
The caller told the 911 dispatcher: “I just saw him drag the body across the road. He put it in his car, and then he left.
“And then he came back, and not even 10 minutes ago he started scrubbing the road, and now I see him in the yard with a flashlight looking around,” the person added, according to the outlet.
DeLand police Capt. Prurince Dice told WKMG that police “located some shell casings from a firearm and located some blood in the street.”
Deputies found the bullet-riddled body of 52-year-old Clinton Dorsey inside the trunk of McBride’s red Nissan Versa near Frankfort Avenue and New York Avenue, according to cops.
While searching the area, the cops noticed McBride walking near the scene and arrested him.
“We believe there was an ongoing dispute between McBride and our victim. I don’t know if they knew each other, but they knew of each other. It unfortunately ended in one man’s death,” Police Chief Jason Umberger told the outlet.
The deputies also spoke to a neighbor who said McBride came to her home the day before looking for Dorsey because he “put glass in a jar for his dogs,” Fox 35 Orlando reported, citing an arrest affidavit.
“We believe there was an ongoing dispute between McBride and our victim. I don’t know if they knew each other, but they knew of each other. It unfortunately ended in one man’s death,” Police Chief Jason Umberger told the outlet.
McBride allegedly told the woman he was going to kill Dorsey, whom she described as a “homeless guy who lives in the woods across the street from her house,” arrest records reportedly state.
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Another person told deputies he saw bloody clothing inside a dumpster, which was near McBride’s car, the outlet reported.
Several other witnesses reportedly told police that they heard gunshots the night Dorsey was killed.