A space rocket program manager who fell ill following President-elect Trump's victory brutally murdered his father with an ice ax on election night and was found smiling and clapping, covered in his loved one's blood, police said. That's what it means.
Corey Burke considered the bloody assault in which he allegedly strangled, bit and hacked his 67-year-old father in their $800,000 Seattle home an “act of liberation,” charging documents state. claims.
Burke, 33, is a training program manager at Jeff Bezos' spacecraft company Blue Origin and is married to prominent transgender author Samantha Lee Allen, according to LinkedIn. Official documents revealed this.
Allen is the author of the acclaimed book Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from a Red State and editor of Them, Condé Nast's transgender news publication.
According to court documents, Burke told police that the killings were to “help people change their attachment to their parents” and that “it had to be done today,” with her father's face covered in blood. told the police.
Ms. Burke was upset ahead of Election Day and knew that President Trump would easily attack Vice President Kamala Harris after her alleged abuse. Apparently, it was because his father, Timothy Burke, refused to turn off the lights.
She then went upstairs, grabbed an ice “pickaxe,” tripped her father, strangled and bit him on the floor, and repeatedly struck him with the blunt, sharp end of the tool, police said. did.
Officers reported that Ms. Burke then sat next to her father and watched him die, before breaking all the windows in the house in what she described as “an act of liberation.”
When police arrived, Burke was “clapping because he was so happy,” police said.
Burke had worked for Blue Origin for about five years and lived with his father in a house in south Seattle, according to his LinkedIn page.
Burke told police that her relationship with her father was strained because she didn't have strong “boundaries,” which caused her to feel “highly focused and disorganized.”
Donald Trump's election victory “overwhelmed” her and finally pushed the tension to breaking point, she said.
When police arrived on the scene, she came out of the house with her hands up and blood on her face, but said she had no idea where the blood had come from or who had broken the window in her house. .
She then described an argument with her father over lights, ending with her whispering to one of the officers, “I killed him,” according to the indictment.
Burke is charged with first-degree murder and is being held on $2 million bail.
