WESTMINSTER, Md. — On Sunday evening, deputies from the Carroll County Sheriff's Office were responding to the 600 block of Old Westminster Road for reports of a missing person when they discovered a dead man on the side of the road.
They found him on Medford Road at New Windsor Pike.
Police say the man had been stabbed numerous times and dismembered. Due to the condition detectives were unable to identify the body.
However, police believe the deceased male is missing 58-year-old Maganbhai Pansuriya.
"Well, when I read that on Facebook, I thought it's gotta be a joke. People they put all kinds of stuff on there, what they found just make you wonder and stuff. I thought it's gotta be a halloween joke or something. Nothing you would think would be true," said Donna Darr, a neighbor in the area.
After executing a search warrant on the victim's residence, Carroll County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Detectives took his son, Ravi Maganbhai Pansuriya, 29, into custody on suspicion of murder.
"I was around both of his kids and I would never expect anything like this would ever happen," said Danny Roop, neighbor in the area.
Roop has lived across the street from Pansuriya and his family for 20 years and says it brings a sense of shock and fear hitting this close to home.
"It's kinda scary being this close you know, you don't think about something like this happening in Carroll County," said Roop.
Pansuriya was transported to the Carroll County Detention Center where he has been charged with first and second-degree murder.
This is an open investigation, so anyone with any information is asked to contact the Carroll County Sheriff's Office at 410-386-5900.
