A 36-year-old man in Florida was arrested after he was allegedly caught on tape brutally beating his own mother to death with a brick, then telling an emergency dispatcher that he “put her down.” Russell Antonio Moore was taken into custody on Monday and charged with one count of premeditated first-degree murder and one count of tampering with physical evidence relating to a capital felony in the death of Shambray Lavern Levy, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Moore at about 8:22 a.m. on Dec. 9, called the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office and began making statements about “being put down by lethal injection” before stating, “There’s a dead body here” and “I put her down.” He identified himself and said the victim was Shambray Lavern Levy, his mother.
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Upon arriving at the home in the 8000 block of Beaty Grove Drive, first responders said they were concerned about the safety of the victim and entered the home to conduct a welfare check. Inside, they found Levy’s body on the floor covered in blood-soaked blankets, noting that she had “visible marbling” and appeared to be in the decomposition process.
A surveillance camera in the home allegedly recorded Moore killing Levy, attacking her inside the home at about 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 6. Investigators summarized the vicious six-minute attack as follows:…