Police said a man was arrested on a murder charge Tuesday in an early-morning homicide in the San Jacinto neighborhood.
Michael Ross Philley, 25, was booked into the Potter County jail on a murder charge and a warrant for assault against a family member, police said.
Authorities said Eddie Don Turlington, 53, of Amarillo was found dead inside the house at 835 S. Mississippi St. after police responded to a stabbing report.
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Police said they arrived at 6:38 a.m. and found Turlington’s body lying on a floor in the house, and found another man who was then detained.
Philley owns the house at 835 S. Mississippi St. with Megan Philley, according to Potter-
Randall Appraisal District records.
Investigators waited several hours for a warrant to search the home, Potter-Randall Special Crimes Unit coordinator Lt. Erick Bohannon said.
Amarillo police obtained the warrant, and searched the home about 11:15 a.m.
Bohannon said an autopsy is scheduled for today.
Justice of the Peace Gary Jackson was called to the scene of the homicide, police said.
Officers wrapped yellow crime scene tape around the house and a 2006 Hummer H2 parked in the driveway.
Dee Ealy, 58, lives in the 900 block of South Mississippi, and described the man who lives in the home cordoned off by crime scene tape as a “really nice guy.”
The man lived alone in the house, and a roommate had recently moved out, she said.
Ealy said two men — one of whom drives a Hummer H2 and another who drives a black BMW — started staying at the house around Thanksgiving. She said the man who lives at the house told her the two men were not living there.
Ealy saw a woman at the house Tuesday, she said.
“Her and this guy in the little car (BMW), they seemed to be arguing,” Ealy said.
A window screen on the south side of the house was damaged, and Ealy said she did not think it was like that on Tuesday.
Bohannon said he had not seen any indication of someone forcing entry into the home.
Records obtained online show a 1999 BMW and the Hummer are registered to Turlington, and the name of the owner of a maroon 1996 Chevrolet Suburban parked in the driveway of the home is listed as Ross Philley, whose registered address is the home on South Mississippi.
