North Carolina man accused of killing his mother after turning himself in

A North Carolina man has been charged with murder after authorities said he walked into a police station and reported that he had committed a crime, leading deputies to find his mother shot to death at a home south of Charlotte.

Slava Pak was arrested after deputies found his mother, Larisa Pak, dead inside a home on Mini Ranch Road in Waxhaw, a town in Union County near the South Carolina border, according to the Union County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies were called to the home at about 4:57 p.m. Sunday after the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department requested a welfare check. Police told deputies that Slava Pak had walked into one of their facilities and said he wanted to turn himself in.

When deputies arrived at the home, they tried to contact anyone inside but received no response. While checking the exterior windows, they saw someone lying on the floor, the sheriff’s office said.

Deputies entered the home and found Larisa Pak dead with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Detectives later learned that authorities in Chester County, South Carolina, had also requested a welfare check for Larisa Pak while investigating a separate shooting in which Slava Pak had been identified as the suspect. The victim in that shooting survived.

Slava Pak was charged in Union County with first-degree murder and is being held without bond at the Union County Detention Center.

Authorities did not immediately release a possible motive or say what led up to the shootings.