Gruesome crime scene posted on Snapchat leads to murder investigation after woman ‘seen laying in big pile of blood’
GRUESOME photos of a crime scene posted on Snapchat has sparked a murder investigation after viewers contacted police saying they saw a woman was laying in a pile of blood.
Isaac Andre Renfro, 26, allegedly posted videos and photos to the social media platform from inside a Utah apartment and hinted that someone had been hurt.
Snapchat users, including a woman only identified as Melissa, alerted Unified Police and shared a copy of the video, according to Unified Police Detective Ken Hansen.
Hansen said officers used that information to evacuate the building and try to negotiate with Renfro.
He said the images showed that “there had been a significant issue inside.”
Melissa told Fox 13: “He showed a pile of blood on the floor and then a table knocked over and made his way to where the body was and showed the lady just laying there in a big pile of blood,”
She added: “He was saying, ‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I apologize to my family and my kids.’ And then he just said it was his time to shine.”
Deputies arrived at the Candlestick Apartments in Midvale, at around 10:30am Friday after responding to a domestic violence call.
They arrived to find a man barricaded inside the home with a woman, police said.
Authorities spoke with Renfro over the phone, then heard gunshots coming from inside the apartment.
At around 2pm, a SWAT teams sent a robot inside the third floor apartment.
Authorities later announced that Renfro was dead, along with 26-year-old Miranda Schachinger.
“Our whole point of the negation was to get these persons out alive,” Hansen said.
“It’s unfortunate that that didn’t happen.”
Family members and friends said Schachinger was a caring mother and friend.
“She didn’t deserve this, and we didn’t deserve to have her taken from us,” close friend Miranda Wilson told Fox 13.
Schachinger, a care coordinator at an assisted living facility, was a nursing school student and the mother of a five-year-old son from a previous relationship.
Friends said she was dating Renfro.
“I hope people remember how giving she was. She took care of the elderly as a [certified nursing assistant] and she was in nursing school. All she wanted to do was help people,” her former mother-in-law, Andrea Subbs said.
“She was strong and she knew she could leave and I think she was trying to.
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“She would have been an amazing nurse. She would have been a fantastic nurse. She would have made a difference in this world. She already has made a difference in this world”.
A vigil was held for Schachinger on May 2 at the Candlestick Apartments.
It’s unclear how many people saw the videos posted on Snapchat.
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