Tragic mom Yannick Brea fought for her life as her sword-wielding son chased her through their blood-soaked Brooklyn apartment, a look inside the crime scene shows.
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The inside of the front door and the front hallway leading to the rear bedrooms are splattered with blood, suggesting she’d tried to fell out the front door but could not.
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Bedding and furniture in three of the apartment’s four bedrooms are blood-soaked, indicating that the 55-year-old victim was running for her life from room to room with her son Michael Brea in pursuit during the rampage.
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Family and friends said money woes and a stalled showbiz career likely pushed the stressed-out bit actor over the edge in the days before he hacked his mother to death during the bloody rampage in their Brooklyn home.
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Brea, 31, had small roles in “Ugly Betty” and the movie “Step Up 3D” but was not working while living at home with his mother and twin brother Marcel.
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Hours later, he awoke neighbors in the four-story Prospect Heights apartment building by screaming Biblical passages and demanding that his terrified mother “Repent! Repent! Repent!” before slashing her repeatedly with the three-foot sword as she cried for help.
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A photo of the actual Sword used by Michael Brea to kill his mother.