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What a Milwaukee family believed was just a long, bad dream has just become reality. The random remains found in Lake Michigan are confirmed to belong to 19-year-old Sade Robinson, a Black teen who went missing over one week ago.

Police also have a suspect in custody in connection to her killing.

Officials at the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office said Friday that a white man, 33-year-old Maxwell Anderson, was arrested and charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and arson in connection to the disappearance turned killing of Robinson.

Anderson and Robinson were said to have met on April 1 for a date around 5 p.m. at Twisted Fisherman. Employees told investigators the two did indeed meet there. Then, the two left to patron Duke’s on Water and eventually ended up at Anderson’s home, according to Robinson’s phone location. Robinson’s phone died a little after 4:30 a.m.

Suddenly, the following day, a severed leg was found at Warnimont Park near Lake Michigan, police previously said.

Read more from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Video at the park showed a Honda Civic at the park until about 4:30 a.m. A “human figure” was seen walking down a bluff several times and back to the area of the car.

At 7:32 a.m. April 2, Robinson’s burned Honda Civic was found near West Lisbon Avenue and North 29th Street in Milwaukee, with what officials later determined to be Robinson’s clothes and other belongings inside. On April 6, police found a foot in the area of the burned car that appeared to be from the same body as the severed leg.

Using video and witness statements, police identified Anderson as the suspect who burned the vehicle. He boarded a bus that took him near his home and arrived there on foot at about 8:35 a.m.

The remains were tested and made a match to Robinson, the report says. The total of Robinson’s remains have yet to be recovered.

“Who the (expletive) would do something like this to my beautiful baby?” said Sheena Scarbrough, Robinson’s mother via the Journal Sentinel. “Her whole life was so ahead of her. She was so, so amazing. So beautiful, such a beautiful angel. Everywhere she went, people just admired my baby.”

Anderson was arrested April 4 but only now faces criminal charges in connection to the incident. He’s being held on a $5 million bond.