Sunrise man shoots and kills mother saying he hallucinated after eating mushrooms: police

A Broward County man is accused of shooting and killing his mother after telling police he was hallucinating on mushrooms, authorities said.

Around 5:40 p.m. Friday, multiple 911 callers reported a naked man running in and out of an apartment in Sunrise (Sunrise Police redacted the name and address of the apartment from the incident report.) When officers arrived, they saw blood seeping from the front door. Inside, they found 29-year-old Jorge Omar Torres’ mother dead from gunshot wounds.

As officers searched the apartment, they found a handgun. Torres—still naked—was discovered in a neighbor’s yard and taken into custody.

Torres told investigators he had gone to Markham Park earlier that day, where he ate two grams of mushrooms after buying eight grams from a friend and smoked a marijuana joint, according to his arrest affidavit.

His brother told police the day had started completely normal. Their mother made breakfast before heading to work at Sawgrass Mills mall. Torres left home around 12:45 p.m. and returned two hours later, initially acting fine—until he suddenly began pacing and behaving strangely.

Torres later told police he started hallucinating.

He then grabbed a 9mm handgun from his bedroom and pointed it at his brother, who was playing video games at the kitchen table.

When his mother came home, they began to argue about his well-being, and she urged him to lie down and rest. Instead, Torres jumped out of a window naked, claiming he needed to get his dog to safety. He placed the dog in his brother’s car before his mother coaxed him back inside.

Once inside, Torres said his mother locked the front door, and he suddenly believed she was the “bad guy.” He grabbed the gun and opened fire.

“Jorge stated that he shot between 3 to 6 rounds at his mother’s chest,” investigators wrote in the arrest affidavit.

His brother, who had gone outside to retrieve the dog, heard their mother scream followed by three gunshots. When he returned, he saw Torres hiding in a red car and hopping a fence into a neighbor’s yard.

Surveillance footage from the apartment complex confirmed much of the account provided by Torres and his brother, police said.

Torres remains jailed at the Broward County Main Jail, charged with first-degree murder. Court records show he has pleaded not guilty.