That just can’t be... has to be what one Pecan Grove resident thought to herself Friday morning as she passed a man dragging a body through her sleepy neighborhood.

Well, it was.

Friday, November 21, about 1:45 in the afternoon a woman called the sheriff’s department to report that as she went to work that morning about 4:30 a.m., she saw a man dragging what appeared to be a body. Not believing her eyes, she went to work.

Sheriff’s spokesperson Terriann Carlson said, “The complainant contacted her boyfriend who went by the location but found nothing.” Still mulling what she had seen, the witness returned to Quarterpath Drive on her way home from work and checked out the area discovering what appeared to be blood. She called authorities. Sheriff’s deputies met the woman at her home and she took them to a grassy area at 2010 Quarterpath Drive in the Pecan Grove subdivision to investigate.

Once in the vicinity, responding officers discovered the body of 25 year old Melissa Ann Barajas stuffed into a storm drain just yards away from the intersection of Quarterpath and Plantation. Barajas had suffered several stab wounds to the upper torso. An autopsy was ordered to determine her cause of death.

Carlson said the investigation led detectives to a nearby residence. As the result of the investigation, Steven Anthony Oliver, 21, of 1310 Roundstone was taken into custody. Carlson said, “As the result of incriminating evidence, Oliver confessed to the Tampering and Fabricating of Physical Evidence and is currently incarcerated in the Fort Bend County Jail, $500,000 bond.”