Pennsylvania man allegedly beheaded girlfriend with machete: police

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Philadelphia-area authorities have arrested a person for allegedly beheading his girlfriend with a machete and trying to dismember her physique, based on police.

Police recognized the apprehended 32-year-old Nicholas Scurria on Friday morning.

Officers responded to studies of a home disturbance at 4:40 a.m. ET at an residence advanced within the Clifton Heights neighborhood, based on a police report.

A witness within the neighborhood who referred to as police mentioned she heard loud screaming and banging from a close-by residence. Afterward, the residence “grew to become quiet,” and the witness heard “sprawling-like sounds” and “the gathering or shifting of plastic materials,” the police report states

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Upon arriving on the scene, officers reportedly seen Scurria sitting on a mattress contained in the residence and seen that he was allegedly sawing off the left leg of the already-decapitated sufferer with a machete.

Officers held the sufferer at gunpoint and from outdoors the residence earlier than forcing entry and taking Scurria into custody.

“She tried to chop my balls off,” Scurria repeated to officers as they apprehended him, based on the report.

The suspect informed police throughout an interview that he and the sufferer had gotten right into a battle, and that he thought-about their relationship over though they lived collectively.

Scurria “acknowledged that through the argument he knocked the sufferer unconscious after repeatedly putting her within the face/head areas.” He then admitted to making an attempt to dismember and conceal her physique. 

As soon as authorities have been capable of acquire entry, they witnessed the suspect trying to decapitate the already-deceased sufferer utilizing a machete, based on the report.

Officers have charged Scurria with first-degree homicide, third-degree homicide, prison possession of a weapon and abuse of a corpse.

An investigation into the incident stays ongoing.

Information of the alleged homicide comes after one other Philadelphia man was accused of stabbing six members of the family Friday morning.