Police have arrested a Pittsburgh man charged with killing his girlfriend in December, accusing him of beating and burning her before driving her naked corpse to a North Side home and abandoning it.
Tyrone Good, 44, was arraigned Wednesday on one count of criminal homicide, a day after being arrested. He remains in the Allegheny County Jail without bail.
Officers were dispatched to a Perry North home on Watson Boulevard around 2 a.m. on Dec. 28 following a 911 call about an unresponsive woman.
When they entered the residence, they found Michelle Sturdivant’s naked body on the living-room floor under a purple blanket, the complaint said.
Police said Good attacked Sturdivant, 44, in his West End apartment on Wabash Street and moved her body to the North Side.
On the afternoon of Dec. 27, the day before her death, Sturdivant was a passenger in Good’s Mercedes Benz as he drove to an Ohio Township liquor store and bought a $35 bottle of Don Julio Tequila Reposado, police said.
They returned to Good’s West End apartment. At 1:07 a.m. on Dec. 28, surveillance cameras showed Good walking out and dropping garbage into a nearby dumpster, the complaint said.
At 1:21 a.m, video showed Good dragging Sturdivant’s body out of the home, according to the complaint.
It was not clear from the complaint whether she was dead or just unconscious.
Good laid a tarp in the backyard, investigators said. He then ran out of the camera’s frame.
At some point, according to the chain of events described by investigators, Good arrived at the North Side apartment where police later found Sturdivant’s body.
A resident told police Good knocked on their door around 2 a.m. repeating, “Help me, help me!” police said.
The neighbor saw Sturdivant, who was unresponsive, lying naked on a nearby walkway, the complaint said. They said she was visibly injured.
The neighbor helped Good carry “the victim’s lifeless body” into the home, according to the complaint. The neighbor was not named.
Good got cold water and ice from the kitchen and rubbed them on Sturdivant’s body, the complaint said. He then attempted CPR but could not find Sturdivant’s pulse, according to police.
“Good kept saying, ‘She normally wakes up. It doesn’t happen like this,’” the neighbor told investigators, according to the complaint.
Good then fled in his Mercedes, which had Georgia license plates, and the witness called 911, the complaint said.
Investigators charged Good on March 4. Police did not provide details about his arrest.
The neighbor told police Sturdivant had “a physically abusive relationship” with Good for several years.
Sturdivant died from multiple blunt force injuries and extensive burns, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said.
Police did not explain the nature or specific details of the injuries.
Drug and ethanol intoxication also contributed to Sturdivant’s death, according to the office.
Good’s attorney was not listed Wednesday in court records. His preliminary hearing is set for May 1.