CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A man pruning trees found parts of a skull, arms and legs in bags on Wednesday in a vacant home next to where a man was killed and dismembered, according to police.

The man told police that he spotted the bags while trimming bushes at a home in the 12900 block of Longmead Avenue, next door to a home where Daniel Slone was killed on July 1.

Police said they suspect the remains are human and are investigating a connection between the bones and Slone's death, according to police dispatch records.

The man told police dispatchers about 11:30 a.m. that he found the bag in the bushes. He cut the bags open and discovered the body parts, according to police dispatch records.

Cleveland police homicide detectives searched both the home and the backyard behind a garage. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner investigators loaded a large white bag into a van and drove off.

The medical examiner will test the bones to see if they're human and try to make a positive identification.

Rhiannon Bunner, whose mother lives across the street, said the house where the bones were found was vacant. She said it was being fixed up after a fire several months ago.

Hector Diaz, 30, on July 1 dismembered Slone and later fatally shot himself after a SWAT team cornered him at a Lorain apartment building.

Investigators found two pieces of Slone's torso inside a dumpster at the apartment building, officials said. They did not find Slone's head, legs or arms.

The Lorain County Coroner ruled his death a homicide by violence, but could not determine how he died because they never found the rest of Slone's body.

Diaz told an ex-girlfriend prior to killing himself that he had killed a landscaper by shooting him in the head, according to police reports.

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