AUSTIN, Texas – A man charged with murdering his neighbor said that he doesn’t remember the murder and that “Lucifer” is to blame for the killing, according to police.
Tamorian Moore, 23, was charged with killing his neighbor, Leonard Foster, on his 81st birthday, KTBC reported.
Austin police said in a news release that officers responded to a request to check on Foster’s welfare after he hadn’t been heard from in several days. The caller told officers that when they went to Foster’s apartment, his door was open and his car was gone.
In an affidavit obtained by the Austin American-Statesman, police said that Foster’s vehicle was seen back at his apartment complex an hour later, but another man — identified as Moore — was driving it. Another caller told police that Moore was wearing latex gloves and loading black trash bags into Foster’s truck.
Police said that they found Foster’s body inside Moore’s home, wrapped in blankets with his feet bound and head sticking out, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
The Travis County Medical Examiner’s office found that Foster was killed by blunt force trauma and had cut marks on his body, police said.
In the arrest affidavit, police said that when they spoke to Moore, he took off his pants and tried to run away, but he was detained by officers who found a gun in his pants pocket, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
When police questioned Moore, he told officers that he believed that Foster was trying to seduce him, KTBC reported.
When police asked Moore if he killed Foster, he said that “Lucifer did” but that he did not know “how Lucifer killed him” because he “blacked out,” according to the affidavit.
Moore was charged with first-degree murder and jailed on a $1 million bond, according to online records.
