Suspect In Sheraden Girl's Slaying Held Without Bond

A registered sex offender accused of fatally stabbing a teenage girl whose body was dumped near a Sheraden school is being held without bond.

Tushon Brown was charged with homicide, statutory sexual assault and abuse of a corpse, among other charges after Lauren Deis, 14, was found dead on July 13.

According to Sheriff William Mullen, Brown was extradited from North Carolina back to Pittsburgh on Saturday. He was immediately taken to SCI Pittsburgh.

Brown, 35, was arrested on a parole violation Wednesday at a beauty salon where his mother works in Goldsboro, N.C. After Pittsburgh police traveled to North Carolina to interview him, Brown was charged Thursday with homicide.

Deis had been missing for several days from her East Liberty home when her body was found wrapped in trash bags near Langley High School.

Channel 11 News was the only station there on Monday as investigators removed key evidence from Brown's home on Glenmawr Street. Among the items removed was a clothing bin. According to the police report, Brown tried to stuff Deis' body into the bin before disposing of it, but it wouldn’t fit. Brown then tried to cut her right leg off just enough to get her to fit in the bin, police said.

Police said Brown met Deis during a chance encounter on July 7, which then became a sexual relationship. Brown told police that Deis agreed to have sex with him for $200, but Brown said he took the money back and they got into a violent argument.

Brown then told police that Deis attacked him with a knife and he fought back, stabbing her at least a dozen times and killing her.

According to the criminal complaint, Brown sexually abused her dead body, tried to hide it in his basement and then dumped her body and took off to North Carolina.

Flyers are posted in the neighborhood, alerting residents about a community meeting on July 27. Police and community leaders will meet with the public at the Sheraden Senior Center to talk about the rising crime in the area.

A neighbor told Channel 11 News that she thinks she may have heard the girl’s screams.

"It was terrible, horrible screams. I ran to my house to my kids thinking something was going on," said Charlaine Hutchinson. "I think about that little girl, all those screams. Had I been aware, I would have tried to help that little girl."

Previous Stories: July 16, 2010: Police: Sex Offender Admits To Killing 14-Year-Old Girl July 15, 2010: Body Found Near Sheraden School Was Missing Girl, 14

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