A man has been charged after people reported seeing him dragging a dead body over the weekend in Richfield.

Yusuf Ali Salat, 25, faces one count of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree drug possession.

Police responded to the 7600 block of Knox Avenue South on a report of a possible body being dragged out of an apartment on Saturday. According to court documents, officers went into the building and found suspected blood splatter on the ground and the wall.

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The 911 caller told police that she saw a man carrying a woman who was bleeding and appeared to be deceased. She said she told the man to stop, but he left with the woman.

Officers followed the blood splatter and found an apartment with blood on the door. Inside the apartment, they found a large amount of blood on the carpet and the wall.

Investigators found the car that the suspect left the apartment in, which was speeding and ran a red light. The driver, identified as Salat, later stopped at the emergency room entrance of a hospital.

A deceased woman was found in the backseat of the car.

Salat said the woman had shot herself, but an autopsy showed that she had been shot in the back of her left shoulder and the bullet had pierced her liver, court documents state.

Another witness in the apartment building said he was asleep when he heard pounding on his door. He saw an unresponsive woman. A man dragged the woman up the stairs and “stuffed” her into a vehicle, he told police.

Investigators found a gun in the snow outside the balcony of the apartment that Salat and the woman shared. A 9mm magazine was found in a trash bag on the balcony, and a casing was recovered nearby.

According to court documents, investigators found nearly 1,300 grams of marijuana and 71.56 grams of cocaine in the apartment.

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