Brother kills sister for not turning down the TV

Annoyed by a loud television, an irate man strangled his sister after she refused to turn down the volume, police sources said yesterday.

Ozem Goldwire, 27, called 911 Monday night and told cops he found his sister, Sherika Goldwire, 28, unconscious in her bed at 8 p.m. in their Ocean Hill home, the sources said.

Neighbors described him and his sister as mentally challenged.

Their mother, Essie Goldwire, 65, rejected the police version of the slaying, insisting her daughter was the victim of a burglary. "It would have been easy to put words in his mouth," she said. "They've got separate TVs. Why would they fight?"

Essie Goldwire said her son had told cops he found the house ransacked, his sister's purse on a hallway floor and her lifeless body under a blanket. "He got scared," she said. "He didn't do it.

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