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Bosonic

(3,746 posts)
Thu Jan 1, 2015, 07:53 PM Jan 2015

Sheriff's office: Florida man decapitates his mother

Source: AP

OLDSMAR, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man is charged with first-degree murder after his mother was found decapitated outside their home on New Year's Eve.

According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Mario Gomez called 911 on Wednesday evening and told dispatchers that his brother Christian had killed their mother and cut off her head.

Deputies found Maria Suarez-Cassagne's body outside the Oldsmar home, near some garbage cans. Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Thursday that Gomez had planned his mother's murder for two days.

Gomez was upset with his mother because she wanted him to move boxes around the house, and he was jealous of the attention Suarez-Cassagne paid to his brother, Gualtieri said.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/bb16884959c34242905217fb483dab7c/sheriffs-office-florida-man-decapitates-his-mother



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rug

(82,333 posts)
4. "According to the sheriff's office, Gomez had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and previously was
Thu Jan 1, 2015, 08:40 PM
Jan 2015

held under the Baker Act."

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
6. I suspected that could be the case.
Thu Jan 1, 2015, 09:20 PM
Jan 2015

It's easy to label someone who does something this horrific as evil, but they are usually suffering from mental illness.

amuse bouche

(3,657 posts)
11. Allegedly, Mom asked him to put some boxes in storage
Fri Jan 2, 2015, 10:11 AM
Jan 2015

So he planned the murder for 2 days. Threw her head in the trash and dragged the body out to the curb

He took off on his bicycle and has admitted to the crime

What else do you need to know?

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