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A Brooklyn man allegedly threw out his boyfriend’s rotting corpse with the trash – but the stomach-turning odor was so foul the body didn’t stay hidden for long, sources said.
Christopher Moss, 38, was busted for concealing the corpse Sunday afternoon — two days after cops were called to a building on East 21st Street in Flatbush because of a putrid stink oozing into the halls from a sixth-floor apartment, cops and law enforcement sources said.
Authorities found the “highly decomposed” body of Moss’ lover Darrell Montgomery, 35, stuffed into a trash bag and ditched on the sidewalk, sources said.
The body was so rotted that police initially thought it had been dismembered and had to wait for the medical examiner’s office to remove it from the bag, according to the sources.
No foul play was immediately suspected – and Moss has so far only been charged with trying to dispose of the remains and resisting arrest, the sources said.
Moss didn’t go quietly when cops tracked him down through a tip and approached him as he walked at Nostrand Avenue and Beverly Road, the sources said.
As officers tried to arrest him, he allegedly headbutted one cop and grabbed another officer’s gun, according to the sources.
Moss was charged with concealment of a human corpse, as well as assault on a police officer, attempted robbery, criminal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration, police said.
The stench still wreaked in the halls of the victim’s building Monday, as neighbors were left baffled by what happened.
Supermarket worker Sayuri Abundis, 23, who lives on the fifth floor, said Moss had been acting oddly for the past two weeks.
“[He] has been out front talking to himself,” the resident said. “He’s just been saying, ‘Where are you? Open the door!’ over and over again.
“They were always together but the last two weeks it was only him. Before he would get locked out he’d call up to Darrell and ask him to buzz him in and they would be arguing.”
“[Christopher] would scream at him, ‘Wait till I get up there!’” Abundis said. “They were always arguing. It’s always been like that. But the last two weeks he’s been alone and he’s just been talking to himself out loud.”
Neighbor Carl Smith said he’d seen the couple together since he moved in two years ago.
“[Moss] walked around mumbling a lot of s—t before that happened, before they found the body,” Smith, 62, said.
“He was talking to himself, walking back and forth right out here in front of the building and just walking around the block….just going to the store talking to himself,” he added. “I’m confused just like everybody else. I don’t know why he did what he did. You would just see coming and going together all the time but the last two weeks or so it was just him walking around alone talking to himself.”
The medical examiner’s office will make an official ruling on Montgomery’s cause of death.
Moss was scheduled to be arraigned Monday night.
