I Have No Idea What To Say!
By: Tommy “Tj” Sotomayor

N.C. Man Walks Into Sheriff’s Office, Allegedly Says He Slit 15-Year-Old Daughter’s Throat

A 32-year-old North Carolina man showed up at the local sheriff’s office Sunday morning and admitted that he’d just killed his 15-year-old daughter, say authorities.

Just before 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, Joshua Lee Burgess walked into the lobby of the Union County Sheriff’s Office and told a dispatcher “he was there to turn himself in,” according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office.

The dispatcher asked for his name so she could search for any possible arrest warrants, but before she could go any further, he told her his name wasn’t in the system because “he had just killed someone,” the release says.

After telling the dispatcher he had allegedly killed his daughter, Zaria Burgess, he told them her body was still at his house.

Joshua Burgess

Union County Sheriff’s Office

Deputies raced to the man’s house and found the teen dead inside the home.

Burgess was arrested and charged with murder. He is being held at the Union County Jail. He has not yet entered a plea and is scheduled to return to court next month.

Attempts to reach the public defender assigned to him were not immediately successful.

Police did not initially say how the girl was killed. But on Monday, during Burgess’ preliminary hearing in court, those present let out a “collective gasp” when officials revealed that he allegedly strangled his daughter before slitting her throat, local station WSOC reports.

Zaria Burgess

Officials have not yet released any details about his alleged motive.

“This is just a case where it’s pure evil,” Tony Underwood, chief communications officer for the UCSO told WSCO.