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Man Accused of Chopping Sister To Death Appears Before Court Disoriented
Wed, March 22, 2017

Today Elijah Burke, who is accused of chopping his sister, Juliane Burke, to death appeared in the Magistrate's Court. Burke was scheduled to be arraigned for murder, but when Magistrate Carlon Mendoza called his name, Burke said that he wasn't Elijah, and that was the name of his brother who happens to look like him. Mendoza asked him again, and Burke again said no. This denial of identity led the prosecutor to believe that Burke was not in his right mind, and asked that the court have him examined. Mendoza obliged and ordered that a psychiatric evaluation be conducted.  Despite his behaviour, the charge of murder was still read to him and he was remanded to prison, and is scheduled to appear again on June 21st.

On Sunday night he attacked his sister and chopped her repeatedly on the street in front of onlookers and her 6 year old son.  Juliane’s husband told us that her brother felt his sister had put an obeah spell on him.

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