Actor faces murder rap
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December 5, 2010, Sunday
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AN actor accused of hacking his mother to death with a sword was arraigned in New York on Friday from a hospital prison ward on charges of second-degree murder.
Wearing a light green gown, Michael Brea did not speak or enter a plea. He was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon after investigators found him in the bedroom of his apartment with a 0.9-meter sword.
His mother, Yanick, was found on her knees, hacked to death in their blood-spattered bathroom in New York on November 23.
The 31-year-old Brea had small roles in ABC's now-canceled show "Ugly Betty" and the movie "Step Up 3D."
Relatives issued a statement after Yanick Brea's death expressing their support for her son, whom they called "a compassionate, gentle, intelligent, spiritual and loving man" in need of help.
He was being held without bail and was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation. His next court appearance was set for December 18.
Brea, interviewed in the prison ward by the Daily News of New York, said he had been living in a private world filled with Masonic symbolism and black magic that led to the attack. The day of the attack, he said, a man approached and tried to put a curse on him.
Wearing a light green gown, Michael Brea did not speak or enter a plea. He was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon after investigators found him in the bedroom of his apartment with a 0.9-meter sword.
His mother, Yanick, was found on her knees, hacked to death in their blood-spattered bathroom in New York on November 23.
The 31-year-old Brea had small roles in ABC's now-canceled show "Ugly Betty" and the movie "Step Up 3D."
Relatives issued a statement after Yanick Brea's death expressing their support for her son, whom they called "a compassionate, gentle, intelligent, spiritual and loving man" in need of help.
He was being held without bail and was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation. His next court appearance was set for December 18.
Brea, interviewed in the prison ward by the Daily News of New York, said he had been living in a private world filled with Masonic symbolism and black magic that led to the attack. The day of the attack, he said, a man approached and tried to put a curse on him.
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