‘Traits of a psychopath’: Man murdered secret lover to cover up relationship, burned corpse and made vile Google searches

Naasire Johnson and Kylen Pratt

Left: Naasire Johnson (Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office). Right: Kylen Pratt (Philadelphia Police).

A 23-year-old Philadelphia man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for murdering another man to shield the fact that the two had a sexual relationship, prosecutors said.

Kylen Pratt was convicted Friday of first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence and possession of an instrument of crime, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office said. Prosecutors described the murder of 20-year-old Naasire Johnson as a hate crime.

Johnson took an Uber to Pratt’s north Philadelphia home in the early morning hours of Feb. 17, 2022. When Johnson arrived, Pratt fatally shot him in the neck. Pratt wrapped Johnson’s body in plastic and tape and drove him to nearby Fairmount Park where he set the corpse on fire, prosecutors said. Two people walking a dog found Johnson’s badly burned body three days later. It took DNA analysis to identify the body as Johnson’s, prosecutors said.

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