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'I went too far': Charleston man pleads guilty in 2024 homicide, domestic battery

Summary by Charleston Gazette-Mail
Izak Surface pleaded guilty Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, to second-degree murder and attempted murder for pushing his grandmother down the stairs and killing his girlfriend in January 2024. Police said that Surface, 23, bludgeoned and strangled Lora Farley, 36, on Jan. 18, 2024, in a Chandler Drive residence in Charleston, West Virginia.

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'I went too far': Charleston man pleads guilty in 2024 homicide, domestic battery

Izak Surface pleaded guilty Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, to second-degree murder and attempted murder for pushing his grandmother down the stairs and killing his girlfriend in January 2024. Police said that Surface, 23, bludgeoned and strangled Lora Farley, 36, on Jan. 18, 2024, in a Chandler Drive residence in Charleston, West Virginia.

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Charleston Gazette-Mail broke the news in Charleston, United States on Friday, December 12, 2025.
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