North Carolina teen accused of decapitating his mother at home

A TEENAGER has been accused of decapitating his mother in what a US cop called a “gruesome scene”. Franklin County Sheriff Kent Winstead said 18-year-old Oliver Funez, of Zebulon, North Carolina, is charged with first-degree murder. Winstead said a deputy answered a 911 call yesterday and saw the teen walking out of the house holding the head in one hand and what appeared to be a butcher knife in the other. Horrifically, authorities allege that Funez beheaded his own mother with a butcher knife. “It looked to be a large butcher knife, the weapon that was used,” said Sheriff Winstead, according to ABC 11. A neighbor said the deputy who first arrived at the scene was deeply shaken by what he saw. “He just looked like he was just blown away. I mean, he was just in terror. He was just so upset,” the neighbor told 14News. A neighbor told the television station, “I can’t imagine how anyone could do that to anybody, much less your own mother.” The sheriff told 14News it wasn’t yet clear how many wounds the mother had suffered. WRAL reports that Franklin police have arrested and charged Oliver Funez, 18, with murdering his mother, Yesenia Machado, 35. Police say Funez used what appeared to be a large butcher knife and when deputies arrived, he walked out of the Morgan Drive home holding her head in one hand and the weapon in the other. Police say that two young children were in the home at the time of the murder and that Machado's other son was at school.