A Pennsylvania man is behind bars after he allegedly lured a transgender teen into the woods and dismembered the victim last month after meeting on an online dating app.

DaShawn Watkins, 29, is charged in the death of 14-year-old Pauly Likens, who was last seen on June 22 and reported missing by a family member on June 25, according to a criminal complaint filed with the Mercer Police Department.

The document stated that Likens' father, who referred to Pauly as his son, contacted police to report that his child was missing after no one had heard from the teen since the early morning hours of June 23. 

Likens was allegedly going to stay the night with an unknown friend, the complaint said.

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The Hermitage Police Department responded on June 25 to a report of dismembered human remains recovered at Shenango River Lake in Clark Borough, Pennsylvania. After compiling the teen's cellphone location, interviewing friends and viewing surveillance footage, it was determined that Likens was in that area on June 23.

The Mercer County coroner later confirmed the "various dismembered human remains" that police discovered over the next week belonged to Likens.

A forensic pathologist determined that the teen was dismembered by "some type of cutting instrument."

The 14-year-old's cause of death was revealed to be sharp force trauma to the head, according to the document, and the manner of death was ruled a homicide.

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Surveillance footage, social media records and cellphone records linked Watkins to the scene of the horrific murder, according to the criminal complaint. He has been charged with murder, aggravated assault, evidence tampering and abuse of a corpse.

The 29-year-old allegedly told authorities that he met Likens on popular LGBTQ dating app, Grindr, and the two agreed to meet up.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro expressed support for the Likens family on Tuesday and advocated for state laws "to treat hate-based crimes against LGBTQ+ folks the same way other hate crimes are treated."

"The First Lady and I are thinking of Pauly Likens' friends, family, and our entire LGBTQ+ community right now," he wrote in a X post on Tuesday.

"Pennsylvania State Police’s investigation is ongoing, and her horrific murder must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," he wrote. "It’s past time to strengthen Pennsylvania’s laws to treat hate-based crimes against LGBTQ+ folks the same way other hate crimes are treated."

Authorities have not confirmed if the homicide was a hate crime.

Watkins is expected to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on July 25. 

Fox News Digital has reached out to Gov. Josh Shapiro's office and the Pennsylvania State Police for comment.

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., doubled down on his support for President Biden after his highly criticized debate performance last month. 

Fetterman told Fox News host Jesse Watters Wednesday on "Jesse Watters Primetime" he realizes Biden isn’t as sharp as he was a few years ago, but it doesn’t change his support for the commander-in-chief.

"I really don't think I've seen anything that makes me want to change that," he said. "I'm not following him blindly, but I do fundamentally believe he's been a great president and I do believe ultimately he can prevail."

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Biden has refuted calls from his own party to step down from the 2024 race, saying in a letter to House Democrats Monday that he’s the best candidate who can beat former President Trump in November. 

Nine House Democrats and one Democratic senator have called on Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race since his disastrous performance at the CNN Presidential Debate in Atlanta, according to a tally from The Associated Press.

Fetterman admitted to Watters he only saw parts of the Biden-Trump debate, but there was no question that the president had a "bad night."

He said he’s spent a year with Biden at different events across Pennsylvania, and to him, he was "normal" and "engaged."

"He was actually very popular, and people were eager to have a selfie and those kinds of thing[s]. So, I really want to remind everybody that Joe Biden has done a really good job as president, and I fundamentally am going to remain loyal to that," Fetterman added. 

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The former Braddock mayor said at the end of the day, debates don’t really mean much and conversations about Biden stepping down should stop.

"Joe Biden is going to be our guy, and it's going to be rough, and it's uncertain, but it's going to be very close as well, too," he told Watters.

"I refuse to turn our back on a great president and I know people watching this might disagree that he hasn't been a great president, but I do believe he was. And I think loyalty is really one of the last... It's one of the last currencies in this lousy business."