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November 26th, 2010

Michael L. Brea, the actor who murdered his mother with a sword, did so because he believed she’d been corrupted by a demon.

“I didn’t kill her. I killed the demon inside her,” Brea told the New York Daily News from the prison ward at Bellevue Hospital.

Yannick Brea was found hacked to death in her apartment on Tuesday. Her son was taken into custody immediately and charged with second-degree murder.

In the Bellevue interview, Michael Brea describes in chilling detail the events that led to Yannick’s death.

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November 24th, 2010

Michael L. Brea, the “Ugly Betty” actor police say killed his mother with a sword on Tuesday, has been charged with 2nd degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

Brea will be arraigned today.

The actor’s mother, Yannick Brea, was found murdered in a grisly scene in her apartment yesterday, and law enforcement authorities immediately took her son into custody.

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November 23rd, 2010

Michael L. Brea, an actor who appeared on “Ugly Betty” and in the movie Step Up 3D, killed his mother with a samurai sword while screaming Bible passages early this morning.
Police say Brea took Yannick Brea hostage in their Brooklyn apartment before stabbing her multiple times, fatally.