A former North Carolina radio personality was found dead of “blunt force trauma” in a vehicle on Wednesday.
The Davie County Sheriff’s Office said it responded to an “unknown medical call” shortly after 8 a.m. on Wednesday and found the body, later identified as 62-year-old Doug Maxwell.
The sheriff’s office said it arrested 29-year-old Isidro Rivera Aguero Jr., who also lived at the home, and charged him with murder. He has been ordered held on a $2 million bond, jail records show.
According to the Charlotte Observer, Maxwell was “on air talent” at Charlotte radio stations WBT AM and 107.9 FM from October 2010 to February 2017. For the past several years, the newspaper said, he had been an account manager with a Charlotte furniture store.
Aguero Jr. made his first appearance in court on Thursday, when the district attorney’s office laid out a narrative of what happened, WXII reported. Prosecutor’s say Aguero’s stepmother made the 911 call, saying “she thought her stepson may have probably killed someone.”
“Her husband had went down into the basement, and saw blood all over the place, and also noticed that the carpet was cut,” the prosecutor said.
Maxwell and Aguero Jr. lived in separate rooms in the basement of the home, the prosecutor said, and Aguero Sr. noticed that Maxwell was not inhis room.
“Deputies responded out, and when they arrived to the scene, Mr. Aguero came out, he had his hands in the air, and he said that there’s a dead body in the van,” the prosecutor said.
Afterward, Aguero Jr. invoked his right to remain silent, and deputies saw a foot sticking up “in plain view, through the window of the van.”
After obtaining a search warrant, investigators found Maxwell’s body wrapped in carpet and other items.
The district attorney’s office says deputies secured the scene. The office said when detectives arrived, they executed a search warrant and found Maxwell’s body wrapped in carpet and other items, including a mattress.
Aguero Jr. is a veteran of the US Navy. He was ordered back to court on September 26.
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[Featured image: Isidro Rivera Aguero Jr/Davie County Sheriff’s Office]
