Overview
- Police, called Thursday night to an apartment near 24th Street and Oak, found a body in a closet wrapped in carpet and an air mattress with the head and hands missing.
- Investigators say Ebanks forced the victim’s girlfriend to help clean the scene, then took her to his Glendale apartment and made her shower at knifepoint to destroy evidence.
- Phoenix SWAT arrested Ebanks late Friday morning at the Glendale complex, where officers found a suitcase holding the victim’s head and hands.
- Detectives linked him to the case through phone records, gas station surveillance video, and probation records, and he declined to speak with investigators after his arrest.
- He is jailed on first-degree murder and kidnapping charges under a $1 million cash-only bond, police have not released the victim’s name, and the next court date is May 14.