Seattle girl used an ice axe to kill her father after he refused to show off the lights of their home | EUROtoday

A lady in Seattle has been charged with first-degree homicide after she killed her father with an ice axe for refusing to close off the lights in her home, police say.

Corey Burke, 31, allegedly instructed detectives that she was making an attempt to persuade her 67-year-old father, Timothy, to close the lights off, however couldn’t make him budge. She additionally instructed police that she had been in a extremely emotional state as a result of election, and felt that there was “something important” about Election Day, in accordance with the Seattle Times.

Police have been dispatched to the realm she lived at round 8 p.m. November 5 after stories of somebody breaking out the home windows of a house. Burke then exited the home with blood on her face, and was taken to hospital for a psychological well being analysis.

Police continued to look the house and located her father’s physique within the basement, with wounds to his head and torso, in accordance with the King County medical expert’s report. A bloody silver-and-blue mountaineering axe was additionally recovered.

The day after the assault, Burke instructed detectives that she tripped and strangled her father with the axe, allegedly whispering to at least one that “I killed him,” the Seattle Times stories.

Timothy’s in depth accidents included wounds to his head and torso, 2-inch lacerations to his rib cage and a puncture close to the bottom of his cranium.

“Corey stated (when) her father started arguing with her, about the lights being shut off, that she ‘just freaked out,’” Seattle Detective Azrielle Brikey wrote in a report.

“The defendant told Detectives that she knew that she could not convince him to keep the lights off, so she went upstairs retrieved an ice axe and tripped her father, strangled him with the axe and her hands and then bit him and hit him several times in the head and side with the blunt and sharp ends of the ice axe,” a case abstract by the prosecutor’s workplace learn.

According to police, Timothy was one thing of a shut-in attributable to a variety of well being issues he was going through previous to his loss of life and was dwelling at his daughter’s house in Rainier Valley, Washington.

Burke was formally charged on Friday in King County Superior Court.

Prosecutors have requested that the court docket set a $2 million bail for Burke, citing public security considerations and flight danger considerations. Her arraignment is scheduled for November 21.