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Police Charge Man In Teen Model's 'Gruesome' Death
Charred Remains Of Girl's Body Found In Barrel
YEADON, Pa. -- A 29-year-old man was charged Wednesday with killing an aspiring teenage model who left home early last month after an argument with her mother.
Authorities alleged that Lamar Haymes raped and killed 15-year-old Deanna Wright McIntosh at a house in Lansdowne just blocks from her family home, then cut up her body, put it in a steel drum and burned it with help from an acquaintance.
Haymes was charged with kidnapping, rape, first-degree murder, abuse of corpse and other counts. Delaware County District Attorney G. Michael Green said he would consider seeking the death penalty.
"This is a gruesome crime," he told reporters at a news conference.
Anwaar Malik Gettys, 23, who also lived at the Lansdowne house, was accused of helping to dispose of the body and charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence, conspiracy and other counts.
According to a police affidavit, Gettys said Haymes had told him he had killed and chopped up someone, and he helped Haymes take the steel drum to a vacant lot and saw Haymes place wood and pour gasoline in the container. Gettys led police to the barrel in which the charred remains were found, the affidavit said.
Wright McIntosh was a sophomore at Penn Wood High School who pursued theater, dancing and modeling and sang at Mount Olive Baptist Church in West Philadelphia. Her father is a retired FBI agent, Jim McIntosh, whom she saw regularly.
She may have met Haymes last summer when she worked part-time at a local pizza parlor, said her mother, Darlene Wright, 50, of Yeadon.
The teenager left her home on Dec. 2 to stay with a friend after an argument over how she had spoken to her mother, Wright said. The next day, mother and daughter met with a school guidance counselor about lapsed schoolwork, and Deanna agreed to come home, Wright said.
But she never returned. Wright filed a missing persons report the next day.
Police said a witness told investigators he saw Haymes and Wright McIntosh together at the Lansdowne house on the evening of Dec. 3, hours after she left school for the last time. In a Dec. 31 police interview, Haymes acknowledged that the girl spent the night on a futon at the house, the affidavit said.
The witness said he returned the next day to find Haymes cleaning, and a strong smell of bleach in the house, the affidavit said. Haymes allegedly told the other man not to sit on the coach because it had been shampooed, the document said.
Haymes was already in custody. According to the Philadelphia Daily News, he was paroled from state prison in February after serving more than three years for probation violations on theft and stolen property charges. He reported regularly to his parole officer until Dec. 11, when Philadelphia police arrested him for allegedly driving a stolen car, the paper said.
It was not immediately clear whether Haymes and Gettys had attorneys.
