Oliver Mauricio Funes Machada, a rural North Carolina teen, has been arrested and charged with murdering his own mother in what police are calling a “gruesome scene.”
Machada, 18, was taken into custody after he called 911 telling Franklin County deputies saying that he had just killed his mother. The boy was seen walking out of his house holding his mother’s decapitated head in one hand and a large kitchen knife in the other, police said.
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Mr Funes Machada was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder. Police found the body of 35-year-old Yesenia Funez Beatriz Machado inside the home along with two young girls, who were unharmed. A fourth child was at school. Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Chief of Staff Terry Wright said Ms Machado’s husband arrived on the scene hours later. h/t bbc
“It’s a terrible situation for the family, a terrible situation for the neighborhood and this county. I’m just glad things worked out the way they did and no one else was hurt in taking the suspect into custody,” Mr Winstead said.
A motive for the brutal family murder is not yet known.