Rahsaan Goines, 25, and his mother, Chata Harris, 49, have both been charged by state police with abuse of corpse and related offenses in connection with the 2023 homicide death-investigation of 19-year-old city resident Kevin Cagle.

Their arrests are the latest development in the brutal murder of Cagle whose body was dumped in two garbage bags along Interstate 80 in Northumberland County’s East Chillisquaque Township in mid-October, 2023.

Investigators believe Cagle was shot and stabbed to death on or about Oct. 11 allegedly by Davere Andre McClain in a bathtub in a second-floor bathroom at 642 Fifth Ave., where McClain, 52, lives with Harris. She is described in a court document as McClain’s “paramour.” McClain was arrested last month on charges of criminal homicide and related offenses and is jailed on no bail.

Goines, of Newark, New Jersey, was with McClain when the teen was slain, according to an affidavit filed by Trooper Brian Watkins, the lead investigator.

Cagle’s dismembered body was discovered along the highway on Oct. 13.

Following the murder, Goines assisted McClain remove Cagle from the bathtub and watched as McClain “dragged the body down the steps to the first floor, through the kitchen and into the basement,” the affidavit stated. The teen’s body remained in the basement overnight and then the two men removed it from the house and drove to Northumberland County only after Harris had gone downstairs and saw it, the court document stated.

Upset that there was a body “in her house,” Harris told McCain that he “had to get it out,” investigators were told.

An autopsy determined that Cagle died of “multiple gunshot wounds, and that sharp and blunt force trauma injuries were significant contributing factors to the victim’s death,” Watkins said in the affidavit. McClain allegedly killed Cagle because in his words, he was “a rat,” Goines told police. “According to Goines, Cagle was going to testify against someone who was associated with McClain,” the affidavit stated.

Harris told investigators that on the day of Cagle’s death, she had gone to a local store and purchased bleach, washing machine soap pods and trash bags before returning home and cooking a meal for McClain, Goines and Cagle. “They all ate food and smoked marijuana together,” Harris told police, according to Watkins. When she was initially questioned, Harris said that Cagle left the house, but she then changed her story and said the teen did not leave the property. She also admitted that upon going down to the basement later to feed her dog, she saw Cagle’s body, the trooper said investigators were told.

Watkins alleges that Harris allowed “McClain to store the victim’s dead body in the basement of her residence for over a 24-hour period, which kept the body hidden from public view. She made no attempt to contact authorities to notify them of the presence of the murdered victim in her basement,” Watkins said.

In addition to abuse of corpse, Goines and Harris have each been charged with felony hindering apprehension or concealing evidence, possession of an instrument as well as tampering with evidence. Harris faces an additional charge of obstructing the administration of law while Goines has one added charge of unlawful restraint. Goines waived his preliminary hearing last week on all the offenses while Harris was arraigned Monday before District Judge Aaron Biichle and has a hearing scheduled for next week. She and Goines remain jailed in the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail.