Moment police arrest teenager Brian Cohee who hid head of homeless man he murdered in closet

This is the horrifying moment police arrested a 19-year-old who murdered a homeless man and stuffed his head into his nearest one.

Brian Cohee, now 21, of Colorado, murdered 69-year-old homeless man Warren Barnes in 2021.

He is the subject of a shocking true crime documentary. Parents Discover Teen Son’s Horrifying Secret on YouTube Channel DISCOVER WITH US.

In this extremely gruesome crime, Cohee decapitated, mutilated and mutilated Mr. Barnes’ body before taking some of the body parts home, where his mother found them.

In addition to his head, Barnes’ hands were also discovered by Cohee’s mother Terri, which decomposed in a separate plastic bag stored in his wardrobe.

Cohee had attempted to dispose of the rest of the body by placing it in the trunk of his car and attempting to drive the vehicle into the Colorado River.

The documentary included police dashcam footage of the moment authorities arrived at the Cohee residence.

Police interviewed Cohee at his home and asked, “Your parents are concerned about items they may have found in your room?” What would that be?’

To which Cohee calmly replied, “Yes, I believe so, a human head and hands. From that guy who went missing. I killed him with a knife.

When asked why by police officers, he added: “I’ve always wondered what murder would feel like.”

Later, Terri painfully recalled the moment she discovered Barnes’ severed head in her son’s closet during a police interrogation.

She said: ‘I was in his room tidying up, putting some stuff away and he has a rubber made container in his cupboard and so I just started digging through it.

‘I saw a plastic bag and thought: what on earth is this? I picked it up and it was heavy and I was holding it in my hands, with maggots on it.

“I take it to the sink, it was double bagged so I opened the first bag and didn’t open the second bag. I called his father and said, ‘You have to come here now.’

Cohee’s parents then called 911 to report the gruesome discovery, even admitting to the dispatcher that their son had a keen interest in “death and mortality.”

Cohee admitted to killing Barnes with a kitchen knife and said he had been planning to kill someone six months earlier.

He added that he wanted to kill a homeless person or prostitute, thinking no one would miss them.

Elsewhere in the documentary, Cohee described his horrific crime to investigators without showing any emotion or remorse.

He said: ‘It was the night of February 27th, there was a full moon and I thought I could see clearly why I shouldn’t try. I am in a bad state of mind at that moment, I have a depressive disorder.

‘I was driving around and I see a shape and I think ‘oh interesting’. I’m like that’s a homeless person, so I grabbed my knife, I put on three layers of gloves because plastic gloves can give away their users because they are so thin, I grabbed the knife, pulled back the canvas and stabbed his neck.

“He panicked at first, he said what are you doing, what are you doing, why, why, and I just kept poking at his neck.”

He told investigators he was “grunting” and “making animal noises” as he stabbed Barnes.

He started laughing as he explained in sickening detail how he dismembered the man’s body before saying “sorry, that’s morbid” to investigators.

Cohee seemed excited to tell investigators all about his heinous crime, even excited to relive the murder and enjoy the memory.

Despite the fact that he was insane, Cohee was sentenced last year to life behind bars without parole after being found guilty of first-degree murder.

He was also found guilty of two counts of tampering with a corpse and tampering with evidence.

Judge Richard Gurley, who presided over the case, called it one of the most horrific he had seen in his 37 years in the criminal justice system.

The judge also stated that while it was clear Cohee had mental health issues and saw things differently, murder had been on his mind for “quite some time.”

The chilling documentary left viewers unable to sleep as many rushed to X, formerly known as Twitter, to leave their thoughts.

One person wrote, “Just finished watching a documentary on Brian Cohee Jr. Viewed. I have to get up in five hours. I won’t be able to sleep. Such people exist in this world.’

Another said: ‘I went to YouTube to watch some Katt Williams stand-up after seeing a funny video on here and ended up watching that whole Brian Cohee documentary. Good God, so disturbing.”

Someone else commented on YouTube: ‘Absolutely chilling. That homeless man worked hard and did good things with his life, and that boy treated his body like a science experiment. He should never be released from prison.”

Cohee’s assumption that Barnes’ death would go unnoticed was incorrect because he had many friends and family dear to him.

They have since installed a memorial sculpture in his memory on the spot where he used to spend most of his time.