Police have arrested a man they say killed his girlfriend and then tried to decapitate her. Officers were initially called to a home in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania, for a domestic dispute, but there was no answer from the ground floor apartment when they knocked, FOX30 reported.
When they didn’t get a response at the door, one of the officers at the scene looked through a side window and saw a man attempting to behead a woman’s body, WCAU reported. Investigators said the suspect was using a large knife to try to dismember the victim, WCAU reported.
Police say one of the officers noticed a light on in the apartment and witnessed a man in the rear bedroom. According to police, the officer witnessed Nicholas Scurria, 32, attempting to dismember the body of the deceased female victim with a machete. The officer also saw that the victim had been decapitated and could see rolled-up plastic next to her body.
The officer and his partner then held Scurriat at gunpoint from outside the apartment, and assisting officers helped force their way in to take him into custody. According to police, Scurria told officers that he and the victim had an argument and that he knocked her unconscious after repeatedly striking her in the face and head.
