A Washington woman was arrested after she allegedly murdered her father with an ice climbing axe on election night, officials said.
Investigators said that 33-year-old Corey Burke killed her father after an argument over lighting at the Seattle home they shared.
She then smashed all windows at the home, police said. Neighbors recalled hearing smashing glass.
“My first thought was, are people getting upset over this election, or is somebody trying to break and enter?” a neighbor said.
“The lights were off and only two people live in that house, and only one of them was on the street.”
The neighbor recalled seeing the suspect covered in blood outside the house.
“My thought was something calamitous had happened in the household,”
“My first instinct was did she kill her father with her bare hands?”
Burke has been arrested with first-degree murder. Prosecutors revealed she may have suffered a mental health crisis.
