'That one is uncomfortable': Man has no problem admitting to slaughtering mother but complains about his handcuffs, cops say

A 51-year-old antheral successful Florida is accused of sidesplitting his ain mother, repeatedly stabbing her earlier shooting her successful the caput and past complaining to constabulary that his handcuffs were excessively tight.

Derek DeWayne Vaughn was taken into custody connected Tuesday and charged with 1 number of unsafe and depraved execution without premeditation arsenic good arsenic a weapons discourtesy for firing successful an occupied dwelling successful transportation with the slaying of 77-year-old Jerry Lea Vaughn, records show.

Police accidental the unit began astir 8:30 p.m. Monday, erstwhile Jerry Vaughn called 911 and told the dispatcher that her lad was attacking her.

"Help me, assistance me, my lad conscionable stabbed me, helium is coming to termination me," she said, screaming arsenic the enactment remained open, according to a report from Orlando NBC affiliate WESH.

When archetypal responders reached the scene, Derek Vaughn was extracurricular with his woman and 2 children, waiting adjacent the beforehand of the residence. He was instantly detained.

While Derek Vaughn allegedly had nary occupation admitting to brutally sidesplitting his mother, helium did reportedly instrumentality contented with however tightly constabulary secured his wrists aft the fact.

"I mean, I cognize I killed my mom, but that 1 is uncomfortable," helium told officers arsenic they placed him successful handcuffs extracurricular the household home, according to a report from Orlando CBS affiliate WKMG.

Investigators astatine the country said Derek Vaughn made a bid of chilling statements regarding however and wherefore helium killed his mother. He allegedly told officers that helium initially stabbed his mother. However, erstwhile she did not die, helium reportedly said that "God told him to get his father's weapon and sprout her successful the head."

Derek Vaughn reportedly confessed to carrying retired some convulsive acts.

Emergency aesculapian unit transported Jerry Vaughn to UF Health Spanish Plaines Hospital successful The Villages, wherever she succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dormant aboriginal that night.

The lawsuit was initially handled by Wildwood constabulary but was aboriginal turned implicit to the Sumter County Sheriff's Office aft officials determined the location falls wrong region jurisdiction.

Investigators accidental Derek Vaughn utilized a butcher weapon to stab his parent "in the heart" and a firearm belonging to his precocious begetter to enactment a slug successful her head, according to the Villages-News. In summation to claiming helium had been "instructed by God," Derek Vaughn besides reportedly referred to his parent arsenic "the devil" and told authorities, "I killed the devil."

The apprehension study indicates Derek Vaughn underwent a intelligence wellness valuation and was deemed to recognize close from wrong.

Authorities accidental helium has nary anterior transgression history.

In the aftermath, neighbors described Jerry Vaughn arsenic a profoundly caring pistillate who often opened her location to others — including her son, his woman and their children, who had been surviving with her.

"She was the airy successful truthful galore people's lives," 1 neighbour told WESH, recalling however Jerry Vaughn regularly attended gatherings and doted connected vicinity children.

Family friends said her devotion to her loved ones defined her beingness — making the circumstances of her decease each the much hard to comprehend.

"[That her household turned connected her], that's precise hard to process," different neighbour told the station.

Derek Vaughn is presently being held astatine the Sumter County Jail without bond. He was scheduled to marque his archetypal quality successful tribunal Wednesday, but nationalist records were not instantly available.