New York (CNN) -- A male model has been charged with second degree murder in the killing of a prominent Portuguese journalist in his posh Manhattan hotel room, a New York Police spokesman said Monday.
The model, Renton Sea bra, 20, who is also Portuguese, is still undergoing psychiatric evaluation at Bellevue Hospital, according to NY PD spokesman Detective Nell, who refused to give his first name.
The victim, Carlos Antonio De Castro, 65, was found dead in his room at the Intercontinental Hotel in New York on Friday, according to police. He was a Portuguese reporter and columnist.
Police say Sea bra was taken into custody Saturday after he was spotted leaving another New York hospital where he received treatment for lacerations to his wrists. Police arrested him and transported him to Bellevue.
Castro's body was found after shortly after an acquaintance appeared at the hotel asking to see him, saying she had been in contact with him earlier in the day but was unable to reach him for some time, according to a law enforcement source.
Hotel employees made the grisly discovery a short time later. Castro was found bludgeoned and castrated, the source said.
Castro and Sea bra were staying together at the hotel, another police source said.
Castro was most recently a gossip columnist for the Portuguese newspaper Corrie DA Man ha.
Sea bra was a recent finalist on a Portuguese model-search television show called "A Procure de um Son ho".
It was unclear why the two men were in New York. CNN
