A Seattle woman is accused of murdering her father during an argument over their house lights after allegedly becoming "overwhelmed" with emotions about the 2024 election, police say.
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Prosecutors believe a woman killed her 67-year-old father with an ice climbing ax after an argument. She "appeared to be having a mental health crisis."
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A woman in
Washington state is accused of murdering her father with an ice ax — plunging the tool into his head multiple times during an argument over their house lights being on — after allegedly becoming “overwhelmed” with emotions about the 2024 presidential
election, police say.
Corey Burke, 33, was allegedly “clapping inside her home” when officers arrived at the Seattle residence on Nov. 5 and found her drenched in her dad’s blood,
according to King County charging documents.
Prosecutors say Burke admitted to killing her father, Thomas Burke, in an act of rage over the lights being on inside their home, with the charging documents outlining how she was “having a mental health crisis” spurred on by Election Day, the
Seattle Times reported Monday.
Burke reportedly told detectives there was “something important” about the 2024 presidential race between
Donald Trump and
Kamala Harris and she was allegedly “overwhelmed” by emotions brought on by it. Police say her father tried turning the lights off in the home that night during Burke’s alleged mental episode and the two of them went back and forth over it before Burke allegedly snapped.
According to prosecutors, she tripped her father and then began physically attacking him — biting and strangling the 67-year-old — before allegedly finishing him off with the ice ax.
“Corey stated that she had to bite her father while choking him because he was too strong,” her charging docs say. “Corey stated that once her father ‘went limp,’ she felt better. Corey said that she then hit him with the ice pickaxe in the head several more times. Corey then sat next to her father and watched him until she saw that he was not breathing anymore.”