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SUNRISE, Fla. (WFLA) — A Sunrise man was arrested on a murder charge last weekend after police said he shot his mother while hallucinating on psychedelic mushrooms.
Sunrise police began receiving 911 calls regarding shots fired and strange activity at the Waterside Village Condos on Friday evening, according to an arrest report obtained by NBC 6 South Florida.
One caller reported that a naked man was running in and out of the rear door of an apartment. Officers arrived and saw what they said appeared to be blood coming from underneath the front door of the unit.
Upon opening the front door, officers found the victim’s body on the other side, the report said. A handgun was also found lying on the ground in the apartment’s backyard.
Officers found the suspect, Jorge Omar Torres, 29, naked in a neighbor’s backyard minutes later.
According to officials, Torres lived at the apartment with his parents. When questioned, Torres said he’d arrived home that day after ingesting 2 grams of mushrooms he’d bought from a friend and smoking a marijuana cigarette.
As he began to hallucinate, Torres said he told his brother he “needed to kill the cockroaches that were outside” and that his brother “looked like a lizard and cockroach,” the report said.
He then went to his room, grabbed his 9mm firearm, and pointed it at his brother, according to the report. Investigators said Torres told them that he thought about killing his brother because he felt he was a “bad guy” but eventually changed his mind and put the weapon away.
Torres’ mother arrived home soon after and they got into an argument about his well-being. His mother told him to go to his room and lay down, but instead, police said Torres ended up climbing out his bedroom window while naked.
He told detectives that, at the time, he felt he needed to “get his dog to safety” and put the pet in his brother’s car. After convincing him to come back inside, Torres’ mother locked the front door, prompting him to believe that she was now the “bad guy,” officials reported.
He went back to his room to retrieve his firearm and fired three to six rounds at his mother, who was standing by the front door, according to the arrest report.
His brother reported finding him hiding behind a vehicle, at which point Torres called him a cockroach, took off running again and jumped a fence, the report said.
Torres was booked into jail, and a judge ordered him to be held without bond.