PHOENIX (KSAZ) - ***UPDATED*** - A valley woman says the body of a woman found by police on her couch was a "shrine from God."

The Phoenix Police Department tells Fox 10 that 39-year-old Anitra Braxton has been charged with murder after police found the body of 20-year-old Crystal Hillman on her couch inside her apartment on December 26.

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However, noticed what appeared to be a body laying on the sofa. Braxton was then arrested and taken to police headquarters. Once police obtained a search warrant for the apartment, they found the body of Hillman wrapped in a towel and laying on the couch. She had sustained a gunshot wound to the head.

While being questioned, Braxton told police Hillman's body was a "shrine from God" and was actually her own body. She later told police that the victim had been shot in the eye for not believing in God.

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