A California man has been arrested after the body of his father was found shot dead in a Union City dumpster.

Hayward Police launched an investigation when the 58-year-old father didn’t show upt to work on Wednesday and was not answering his phone, KRON reported.

While officers didn’t find the man, they did find evidence of what they believed was a fatal shooting.

On Thursday, the Oakland Police Department contacted their counterparts in Hayward and said they had 25-year-old David Sanchez in custody on an unrelated matter and requested a welfare check on his father “based on statements Sanchez made during their investigation,” the Hayward department said.

Hayward detectives took Sanchez into custody, and that’s when he told them his father’s body was in a dumpster in Union City.

Sanchez has been charged with murder.

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