Philadelphia Man on the Down Low Fatally Shot His Secret Lover, Burned His Body to Conceal Relationship and Googled ‘Having Sex With Dead Bodies’

Left: Naasire Johnson (Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office). Right: Kylen Pratt (Philadelphia Police).

A 20-year-old man, just starting out in life, was blindsided when a man he was having a sexual relationship with murdered him in cold blood.

In fact, 23-year-old Kylen Pratt googled “killing in cold blood” and other gruesome things after allegedly murdering Naasire Johnson who visited him in his home back in February.

Investigators say Pratt tried to hide the gay relationship.

On Friday Pratt was “convicted of first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence and possession of an instrument of crime,” the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office said, Law & Crime reports.

Johnson reportedly took an Uber to Pratt’s home to meet up. But when he got there, Pratt shot him in the neck, wrapped his body up in plastic and drove the body to Fairmont Park before lighting Johnson on fire.

Pratt’s cellphone revealed that he made several suspect Google searches from “traits of a psychopath,” “having sex with dead bodies,” and “killing in cold blood.”

When the police investigated, they found a lot of blood. A “sizable portion of the carpeting that had recently been heavily bleached,” in Pratt’s home, according to prosecutors.

They also found the murder weapon.

“Make no mistake: The murder of Naasire Johnson was a hate crime. Kylen Pratt did not want anyone to know of his romantic involvement with the victim,” Assistant District Attorney Cydney Pope said in a statement.

#Clique, what’s done in the dark will always come to light.

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