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OCTOBER 27, 2020 / 6:50 AM / CBS/AP

Authorities found the body of an aspiring hip-hop artist inside the trunk of a Virginia man’s car after he crashed on a Miami highway, police said. Robert Coltrain, 25, was arrested and charged with illegal transport of human remains and second-degree murder in the death of 25-year-old Brian Trotter, CBS Miami reported.

A Miami-Dade police report said Florida Highway Patrol responded to a crash on the Palmetto Expressway Sunday afternoon and found Coltrain and his silver Acura. 

Troopers towed the car to the parking lot of Hialeah’s Westland Mall and became suspicious of Coltrain when he asked to remove his belongings from the car, which included a gun case.

Authorities said they were also suspicious because they noticed buzzing flies and the smell of rotting flesh around the car. Troopers smelled a “foul odor emitting from the rear of the 2009, Silver, Acura RL,” according to the police incident report. 

Troopers opened Coltrain’s trunk and found Trotter’s body “wrapped in a piece of fabric and in an advanced stage of decomposition,” the police report said. An autopsy revealed Trotter was fatally shot multiple times. 

CBS Miami reports that during a recorded call at the Homicide Bureau, Coltrain apologized and told his sister the shooting took place on October 17 in Virginia. Trotter was last seen on on that date leaving his home in Triangle, Virginia with Coltrain, who is also from Virginia.

A motive for the killing wasn’t immediately released. It’s unclear whether Coltrain had an attorney who could comment on his behalf.

The two had been friends for more than a decade. Trotter’s family said he was trying to forge a hip-hop career. His rap name was “Kent Won’t Stop.