BROOKLYN, N.Y. (TNND) — An 87-year-old parolee was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of murdering and dismembering a New York woman, according to prosecutors.

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday said a jury recently found Harvey Marcelin guilty of first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence, and concealment of a human corpse in connection to the death of 68-year-old Susan Leyde.

“The brutality of this shocking crime is almost beyond words. This defendant committed a horrific murder that took Susan Leyden’s life and inflicted unimaginable pain on her family and loved ones,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a news release.”He must be locked away, and today’s sentence ensures that he will never be able to hurt anyone else again. I hope this outcome provides Susan’s family and loved ones with a measure of justice and some comfort as they continue to grieve,” Gonzalez added.

Gonzalez said Leyden was last seen alive on Feb. 27, 2022, when surveillance video showed her entering Marcelin’s apartment building on Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York.

Additional footage showed Marcelin, who reportedly identifies as a transgender woman, rolling a wheeled shopping bag containing a black plastic bag on March 2, according to prosecutors. Early the next morning, Leyden’s torso was found inside the bag.

Police later searched Marcelin’s apartment and found Leyden’s head and limbs, along with blood, cleaning supplies, a hammer, and a box for an electric saw, prosecutors said. One of Leyden’s legs was discovered near a garbage can about three blocks away on March 7.

Investigators also recovered footage showing Marcelin buying a saw and cleaning supplies at a Manhattan Home Depot around the time of Leyden’s disappearance.

The New York City medical examiner determined that Leyden died from blunt force trauma to the head and other injuries.

According to prosecutors, Marcelin and Leyden had lived in the same Bronx shelter in 2019, though investigators said the nature of their relationship wasn’t immediately clear.

Marcelin’s conviction was elevated to first-degree murder because of a previous first-degree murder conviction in Manhattan in 1963, prosecutors said.