New details emerge in Pocatello murder

A new picture is emerging of what happened Friday afternoon at an Old Town Pocatello apartment where a man’s body was found stuffed inside a trash can.

Police were called to a second-floor apartment on the 100 block of North Grant Street Friday after an unidentified woman reported seeing a bathtub filled with blood and people searching for a tarp, a police report reveals.

In the report, police stated they found a man’s body wrapped in a dark-colored sheet and stuffed inside a plastic trash can in the corner of a bedroom. They identified the body as that of 24-year-old Lric Allen Elkins.

Two women were inside the apartment when this happened. They told police they saw both accused killers – Jesse Bruce and Tyrell Dixey – inside an apartment bathroom. The women said they thought the men were doing drugs, when they motioned for Elkins to join them.

Shortly after, the women said a fight broke out.

“It’s drug related. I can guarantee you that,” said Heather Cossaboom, who lives nearby.

Once the fight subsided, one of the women told police she spotted Elkins’ body in the bathtub. She said she tried to revive him, but was told, “He is gone.”

Another woman said she never saw Elkins’ body, but heard what sounded like a body being dragged from the bathroom to the bedroom.

A man who lives in the same building told Local News 8 he thought the two women might have been held against their will.

“They were in fear of their life, I believe, because of the way they acted whenever they came out,” said Robert Evans.

An autopsy indicates Elkins died of a knife wound to the back. Police were able to retrieve a knife covered in blood and hair from the apartment where Elkins died.

Neighbors tell Local News 8 Elkins didn’t live in the apartment. A woman told police Elkins was visiting her first-floor apartment when Bruce and Dixey invited Elkins to their apartment for pizza.

Both Bruce and Dixey are being held in the Bannock County Jail with bonds of $1 million each.