OCEAN CITY, N.J. (TCD) — Police arrested a 46-year-old man after he reportedly confessed to killing and decapitating his mother.
According to a press release from the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office and Ocean City Police Department, on Friday, Dec. 8, at 3:59 p.m., Jeffrey Surgent called 911 and said he “suffers from mental illness, and he just killed his mother.”
Police officers went to Surgent’s home on the 600 block of 6th Street and found Surgent and his 74-year-old mother’s body. He was taken into custody on charges of first-degree murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon. The statement said Surgent was then transported to a secure medical facility.
Court documents cited by NJ.com say when police arrived, Surgent did not have any clothes on and was on top of his mother’s body in a hallway outside his apartment. Her head was reportedly a few feet from the rest of her body. Surgent allegedly started yelling and apologizing for killing his mother.
The affidavit reportedly says Surgent tossed his mother’s head outside the door. Then, he was “seen peeking out from the apartment, then pulling his mother’s body into the hallway. He is nude and proceeds to lay on top of her until patrol arrives.”
He’s in custody at the Cape May County Jail without bond.
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