SCITUATE, Mass. (WPRI) — A Massachusetts man has been charged with murder after a body was found in a car outside of a hospital last month.
Christopher Caron, 42, of Scituate, was arraigned Tuesday and ordered held without bail.
On Aug. 23, Caron allegedly parked a Honda Civic outside of South Shore Hospital’s emergency room and told the staff there was a body inside, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office.
An employee found an unresponsive man “wrapped in multiple blankets secured with duct tape,” the DA’s office said. He was identified as Declan Perry, 27, of Portland, Maine.
In court Tuesday, prosecutors said the two men met up at Caron’s condo before going to Boston to buy cocaine and fentanyl.
Later that night, Caron said Perry overdosed, so he called a woman and asked her to bring him Narcan, but it didn’t revive him. The woman later told police that Perry was still breathing and his heart was beating fast, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors said the woman told Caron to call for help, but he allegedly refused, saying his mother and grandmother would kick him out if they found out what had happened. She told police she didn’t see any drugs in the room and went to sleep.
The next morning, Caron woke up the woman and told her Perry was dead, according to prosecutors. She told him again to call for help, but he didn’t.
Prosecutors said Caron then tried using a door as a stretcher to carry Perry’s body, but it didn’t work, so he wrapped the body in blankets and moved him outside.
Some neighbors said when they heard about the incident at the hospital, they contacted Scituate police to say they “assisted a man loading a large, heavy blanket into the black Honda Civic outside a residence Caron was staying at.”
“The defendant is reported as saying that it was a hockey goalie mannequin that he was trying to move,” prosecutors said in court. “And he made several jokes and comments saying, ‘Looks like a dead body, huh?'”
The autopsy report later showed Perry had serious blunt force trauma to his head, chest and neck, and that he died of strangulation.
Police got an arrest warrant for Caron on Friday and he turned himself in the following day.
He is due back in court later this month.