Maybe? Some of his teeth were in the lobby, I guess? ...I think they were his teeth? Alisha doesn't seem to have been beat up so much as...burnt and drowned.

[ So, it makes sense unless the killer is missing teeth. ]

Which means the fight might have taken place in there or even moving around - but why the Hel did they cut off his head and dump it in an entirely different place? His murder seems way more...

[ vague hand gestures she then realizes WON'T HELP THE BLIND GUY ]

...brutal?