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ICE confirmed the teen charged with beheading his mother Monday afternoon in Zebulon is in the U.S. illegally from Honduras.
Oliver Funes-Machado, 18, is accused by Franklin County deputies of beheading his 35-year-old mother, then walking out of their home with her head in one hand and a butcher knife in the other to wait for deputies to respond to the 911 call he made.
But at about the same time, a school bus carried a group of children along Morgan Drive, according to a neighbor.
“I had one child get off the bus here and she was mortified, because the other kids on the bus were talking about there was a lady’s head in the yard,” said neighbor Leona Smith.