The mother of a man suspected of beheading a colleague at a food -processing plant in Oklahoma has apologised in a video posted on Facebook. The suspect, Alton Nolen, 30, is due to be charged later on Monday with first-degree murder, as well as assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
He may also face federal charges.
"Our hearts bleed right now because what they're saying Alton has done," Nolen's mother said in the short video statement, sitting next to her daughter Megan.
"That's not my son." Nolen went on an apparently random knife rampage after being fired.
He allegedly decapitated Colleen Hufford, 54, and was stabbing Traci Johnson, 43, when warehouse boss Mark Vaughan shot him.
"I want to apologise to both families, because this is not Alton."
However, Ms Nolen said that there are "two sides to every story, and we’re only hearing one".
"I'm praying that justice will prevail, the whole story will come out - the whole story," she added.
In the video, Megan Nolen said the family was "in shock" and that her brother has always been a "loving person". The video is dimly lit and neither woman states her name.
But local newspaper The Oklahoman confirmed their identities on Sunday with another sister of the suspect, Paige Nolen.
Nolen had tried to convert workers to Islam, colleagues told investigators, though it is not clear if his beliefs had any link to the attack. The suspect's Facebook page, where he used the name Jah'Keem Yisrael, is filled with bizarre rants in capital letters.
Source: Sky News
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