A man whose strangled body was found inside a refrigerator in an apartment in South Los Angeles had gotten into a “personal dispute” with the now-jailed suspect, who is in custody on an unrelated matter, police said Tuesday.
Two workers cleaning out the apartment in the 600 block of West 57th Street found the victim, 41-year-old Felix Potter, about 10 a.m. on Nov. 10, according to Los Angeles Police Department Detective Chris Barling.
Potter was in the process of being evicted from the apartment, where he had lived for about two years, Barling said.
An eviction notice was found inside the apartment, police said the day Potter’s body was found.
Potter and the suspect, a 57-year-old man who Barling declined to name because of the ongoing homicide investigation, were acquaintances, the detective said.
As for the motive for Potter’s killing, Barling would only say it appeared to have stemmed from a “personal dispute.”
The suspect is being held to answer for a federal matter in another state as well as the additional unrelated alleged offense for which he was in custody, Barling said.
— Wire reports