A man accused of stabbing a Lexington man to death earlier this month has been extradited back to Kentucky from Illinois.
Gerardo Turcios-Rodriguez, 29, is charged in the murder of Douglas Saylor, 66. Saylor’s body was found June 2 around noon inside a house on Elsmere Park, where he had lived for about 15 years.
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“To know that your best friend was murdered, you can’t conceive the thought. He was a very loving, caring person. He would do anything for anybody,” said Daryl Lyons, who considered Saylor, a man he had known for almost two decades, to be his best friend. “There’s several times I’ve just wanted to pick up the phone and call him and just say ‘hey, what are you doing?'”
Lyons said Saylor would pay Turcios-Rodriguez to do house work for him and when he needed it, Saylor would even give the guy a place to stay. Lyons had met Turcios-Rodriguez, but he said he never thought anything about him seemed suspicious.
“You have the excitement of knowing that he’s behind bars, but you still have the sorrow that it’s not going to bring Doug back,” said Lyons. “Doug was doing what anybody else would do if they see somebody down on their luck. You know, you just try to help them and be there for them.”
“There’s so much there that we’re confused by, that we don’t understand. That we probably never will understand,” Lyons said.
Saylor is survived by three sons and several grandchildren.
Turcios-Rodriguez is being held in the Fayette County Detention Center. He will be arraigned on Thursday.
