'Ugly Betty' actor Michael Brea murdered, mistook mother for the devil

"Ugly Betty" actor Michael Brea said that he murdered his mother mistaking her for the devil. Brea was arrested for killing his mother in Brooklyn, New York, using a sword used for Masonic rites. Brea was then taken to Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric evaluation.

New York Post reports that during the evaluation, Brea said: "When I looked at my mother, I saw the devil."

Brea, who also had a small part in Step Up 3D killed his mother, aged 55, by using an ornate masonic sword, reportedly 3-foot long. According to reports, Brea had repeatedly stabbed and hit his mother on her head with the sword.

Upon hearing the noises coming from Brea's apartment, the neighbors made calls to the police, who then found the woman dead in the bathroom. According to neighbors, the 31-year old Brea was heard to have repeatedly shouted "Repent!" at his mother, and something about "the architect of the universe" a term used by Freemason to refer to the supreme being. Brea was a member of the Freemason and had been in a meeting earlier in the evening.

Police officers have arrested Michael Brea on charges of murder and possession of weapons.