Mental Health Specialist Accused Of Murdering Unhoused Man, Hiding Body In Trunk

A Florida therapist is accused of fatally shooting an unhoused man and hiding his body in the trunk of a car, DeLand police announced.

Travis McBride, 46, was charged with murder Friday in connection to the death of 51-year-old Clinton Dorsey, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by HuffPost.

Police responded to a call Thursday from an anonymous man on a “911 only cell phone” stating that someone had been killed, the document said.

“Older white guy named Travis, he’s the one who killed a dude named Clint,” the caller told dispatchers, adding that the man he identified “was cleaning up the blood,” “drug the body across the road” and then “put it in the car and left.”

Around the same time, police dispatch received a separate call from a woman using the same phone number, stating that “the person who committed the murder” was outside her door.

According to the affidavit, responding officers found McBride outside the woman’s residence and noticed multiple injures on his hand and arm, which he attributed to a gun he owned. They also found scratches, but McBride said they were caused by dogs he trained, per the document.

While one responding officer was speaking with McBride, another met with the female caller at the rear side of the home.

The woman was “frightened” of McBride, and said that he’d killed a man named Clinton the night before, according to police. Multiple witness described Dorsey as an unhoused man living in the woods across from the woman’s home.

Officers inspecting the area noticed a large amount of water where the woman said McBride had committed the killing, despite it not raining in recent days, the affidavit said.

Responding officers then found 9 mm shell casings next to blood droplets nearby,