London,
(ANI):
Michael
L
Brea,
who
appeared
in
one
episode
of
hit
show
'Ugly
Betty",
has
been
arrested
after
he
reportedly
killed
his
mother
with
a
samurai
sword
inside
her
New
York
home.
A
SWAT
team
took
the
actor
into
custody
after
police
spent
45
minutes
trying
to
get
into
the
apartment
when
neighbours
reported
hearing
screaming
from
the
home,
reports
the
Daily
Mail.
Brea
had
to
eventually
be
arrested
by
police
at
the
Brooklyn
apartment
where
authorities
said
that
they
were
met
with
a
'very
bloody'
scene.
Police
said
that
they
found
Yannick
Brea
kneeling
with
fatal
lacerations
to
her
head
in
a
blood-spattered
bathroom.
Her
son
was
in
a
nearby
bedroom
holding
the
three-foot
sword
and
babbling
about
religion
and
repentance,
police
said.
A
neighbour
claimed
that
the
31-year-old
had
taken
his
mother
hostage
and
could
be
heard
shouting
passages
from
the
Bible.
He
claimed
that
the
actor
had
been
shouting
'repent.
repent,'
before
stabbing
his
51-year-old
mother
with
the
sword.
There
have
been
claims
that
woman
was
found
decapitated.
“I
heard
this
wild
screaming",
said
Gregory
Clare,
who
lived
below
the
apartment
where
Yannick
was
brutally
killed.
“Michael
was
yelling,
'Repent,
repent,
sinner,
sinner',
over
and
over
again.
He
was
screaming,
'You
never
accepted
Jesus'.
It
was
real
loud." Clare
said.
Brea
was
apparently
taken
out
of
the
Prospect
Heights
apartment
on
a
stretcher
and
is
currently
at
Kings
County
Hospital.
He
will
undergo
a
psychiatric
assessment
before
police
decide
whether
to
charge
him.
Brea
is
a
Haitian-American
actor,
who
was
also
a
dancer
in
film
Step
Up
3D.
The
actor,
who
was
described
by
neighbors
as
'quiet,'
was
into
martial
arts
and
was
a
low-level
Mason.
He
apparently
took
the
murder
weapon
from
a
Masonic
lodge
after
a
meeting
on
Monday
night
and
then
later
used
it
on
his
mother,
said
the
suspect's
uncle
Martial
Brea.