Eighteen-year-old Oliver Mauricio Funes Machada told a 911 operator that he decapitated his mother yesterday, “Because I felt like it.”
Machada, who is being held without bond for first-degree murder, was recently released from a mental facility, according to his father. The teen killed his mother with a knife yesterday afternoon at their home just east of Zebulon. According to news reports, Machada takes multiple medications for psychosis and schizophrenia.
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