A Pennsylvania man was convicted of stabbing a transgender fashion designer from Philadelphia more than 40 times, cutting off her legs and tossing her body into the Schuylkill River five years ago, prosecutors said this week.

Akhenaton Jones, 41, faces a mandatory life sentence for the horrific murder and mutilation of Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells, 27, a freelance wig and clothing maker with whom he had formerly been romantically involved, Philly District Attorney Larry Krasner announced Monday.

“It’s one of the most savage and personal and hateful crimes I’ve ever seen,” Assistant DA Ashley Toczylowski said of the June 2020 killing at a press conference.

Fells’ badly beaten torso was pulled from the river near Bartram’s Garden during an unrelated search for two missing teens on June 8, 2020, authorities said. Her legs, which had been stuffed into a garbage bag, were recovered from the waterway days later.