PACE, FL – An Army veteran who suffered a traumatic brain injury over a decade ago has been accused of beating his caregiver mother to death on Mother’s Day.
Police responding to a distress call at the home of Cheryl Lynch and her son, 38-year-old Christopher Lynch, early Sunday morning.
As deputies approached the home, they could hear loud yelling and the sounds of a person in distress.
They were approached by Christopher, who was covered in blood and wielding an iron rod with a hook on one end of it.
“You want some?” Christopher reportedly asked the officers before striking their patrol car with the iron rod. After refusing to comply to verbal commands, police shot Christopher multiple times with a stun gun.
This caused him to drop the iron rod, but Christopher began trying to kick and punch the officers. With the help of other deputies who arrived on the scene, police were finally able to get Christopher in leg irons and handcuffs.
On the front porch of the home police would find Christopher’s mother. She was covered in blood, had multiple lacerations on her face, her eyes were swollen shut and barely able to talk.
She managed to tell police that her son was the person who attacked her but she could not remember why. She was rushed to the hospital but would die from her injuries later that day.
Christopher is currently in the Santa Rosa County Jail with no bond, facing felony charges for first degree murder-open count, second degree aggravated battery, third degree battery, second degree assault on an officer, and third degree resisting an officer with violence.
Cheryl had been caring for Christopher after he suffered a traumatic brain injury while on training exercises with the U.S. Army in 2000. Almost 10 years later, Cheryl wrote a letter to the House Committee on Veteran’s Affairs concerned about her son’s future.
“I am a 54-year-old mother,” she wrote. “If something were to happen to me, who will know enough about my son’s individual difficulties and medical needs to continue to manage his care? Who will be able to act in his best interest or defense to assure he receives his entitled benefits? Who would be able to put the proper supports in place for my son to not end up on the streets, institutionalized, or even worse?”
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