Michael Brea Kills Mother With Masonic Ceremonial Sword
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A hardworking Brooklyn mother was hacked to death early this morning allegedly by her sword-wielding, bit-actor son during a bizarre religious meltdown in which he screamed Bible passages and made obscure references to Freemasonry, police and witnesses said.
Greg Clare, who lives downstairs from victim Yannick Brea, 55, shared with her son Michael Brea, a 31-year-old actor and low-level Freemason who had roles in “Ugly Betty” and the movie “Step Up 3D,” said he first heard screams about 1 a.m.
“He kept chanting: ‘Repent! Repent! Repent!’” Clare said, referring to Brea. “He kept asking her if she believed in Jesus Christ, if she believed in ? . She was yelling ‘Help me! Help me!’”
Another neighbor said Brea kept calling for the “architect of the universe,” a term used by Freemasons to refer to a supreme being. And a police source said the murder weapon was a three-foot ceremonial Masonic sword.
A police official said 911 calls started coming in about 1:12 a.m. reporting a domestic argument in the second floor apartment on Park Place. Cops arrive minutes later and could hear Brea chanting Biblical terms behind the locked door but heard no indication of a fight.
Then a neighbor told them he could see blood on the windowsill from his own apartment so cops followed him, confirmed the blood, and then kicked in the front door.
Once inside they saw Brea brandishing the large sword, and called Emergency Services Unit for backup, which is standard practice according to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
“It was a barricaded situation,” Kelly said. “When there is a barricade situation responding patrol officers, if possible, wait for Emergency Services Unit to respond, they’re trained psychological technicians, they have additional equipment that enables them to perhaps better protect themselves to go through the door.”
Neighbor Clinton Clare, Greg’s father, told a different story.
“I heard moaning and then silence. They just kept standing there for 45 minutes. I think she’d be alive if they hadn’t taken so long,” Clare said.
Clare said the police kept asking him if he had a key to the Brea’s apartment, and eventually left to call for backup. When ESU arrived, they knocked down the door about 2:20 a.m. and found a gruesome scene, with Yannick kneeling in the bathroom with multiple stab wounds to her head.
Yannick Brea’s family was furious with the police response.
“When I heard what happened I went crazy,” said Yannick’s sister Gina Bumond, a nurse who lives in Flatbush. “I heard police didn’t knock the door down. Are you serious? She could be alive today.”
Bumond described her sister as a loving parent devoted to her sons.
Serge Marcel, 53, Yannick’s brother, said Michael had no history of mental illness or substance abuse the family was aware of.
“I never knew this kid could do something like that,” he said.
Michael Brea was taken into custody and then to Kings County Hospital, where he is undergoing psychiatric evaluation. Charges are pending against Brea, whom Kelly said had no criminal record.
Two other neighbors, Vernal Bent and his mother Phyllis, said they heard yelling from the floor below.
“I heard a shriek and a woman yelling ‘help me,’¤” Vernal Bent said. “We called 911 and we kept hearing screams and then we didn’t hear them any more. Michael was chanting Biblical phrases and kept calling for Moses, Jerusalem and the ‘architect of the universe,’”
“I think he just snapped,” Bent said. Police spent nearly 45 minutes trying to get into the apartment, Bent said
Phyllis, who refused to give her last name, said she was friends with Yannick and that the woman would frequently bring them traditional Haitian food.
Mustafa Nashal, who owns a deli a half block away, said Yannick would make him her special chicken and rice a few times a week.
“She treated me like a son. She’d come in every day for five or ten dollars of Lottery tickets. She was here last night,” said Nashal, 33.
She once worked at the Marriott at the World Trade Center but left after the hotel was destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, neighbors said.
She currently worked at another Marriott in Brooklyn as a housekeeper, and was also a regular at St. Theresa Avila not far from her Park Place home.
Clare said Michael’s twin brother Marcel, a martial arts instructor, also lived with his mother, who neighbors said was separated from her husband but still on friendly terms.
In addition to his acting, Michael Brea was also an entrepreneur who at one time owned a Subway franchise at 1709 Broadway in Brooklyn. A friend said in 2008 Brea gave out hundreds of free turkey subs on Thanksgiving to feed the less fortunate, a charitable effort inspired by his mother, who was also known to cook for those in need.
But the Subway parent corporation took back the franchise roughly a year ago because of poor performance. Creditors had also placed several liens against the business when Brea owned it, court records show.
Michael talked about his life and goals in an article posted on BelFim.com, a Haitian Internet movie database.
“I remember growing up, and my mother was always feeding people who were less fortunate. My parents raised me to always share and to give charity in the name of ? !” he wrote.
A hardworking Brooklyn mother was hacked to death early this morning allegedly by her sword-wielding, bit-actor son during a bizarre religious meltdown in which he screamed Bible passages and made obscure references to Freemasonry, police and witnesses said.
Greg Clare, who lives downstairs from victim Yannick Brea, 55, shared with her son Michael Brea, a 31-year-old actor and low-level Freemason who had roles in “Ugly Betty” and the movie “Step Up 3D,” said he first heard screams about 1 a.m.
“He kept chanting: ‘Repent! Repent! Repent!’” Clare said, referring to Brea. “He kept asking her if she believed in Jesus Christ, if she believed in ? . She was yelling ‘Help me! Help me!’”
Another neighbor said Brea kept calling for the “architect of the universe,” a term used by Freemasons to refer to a supreme being. And a police source said the murder weapon was a three-foot ceremonial Masonic sword.
A police official said 911 calls started coming in about 1:12 a.m. reporting a domestic argument in the second floor apartment on Park Place. Cops arrive minutes later and could hear Brea chanting Biblical terms behind the locked door but heard no indication of a fight.
Then a neighbor told them he could see blood on the windowsill from his own apartment so cops followed him, confirmed the blood, and then kicked in the front door.
Once inside they saw Brea brandishing the large sword, and called Emergency Services Unit for backup, which is standard practice according to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
“It was a barricaded situation,” Kelly said. “When there is a barricade situation responding patrol officers, if possible, wait for Emergency Services Unit to respond, they’re trained psychological technicians, they have additional equipment that enables them to perhaps better protect themselves to go through the door.”
Neighbor Clinton Clare, Greg’s father, told a different story.
“I heard moaning and then silence. They just kept standing there for 45 minutes. I think she’d be alive if they hadn’t taken so long,” Clare said.
Clare said the police kept asking him if he had a key to the Brea’s apartment, and eventually left to call for backup. When ESU arrived, they knocked down the door about 2:20 a.m. and found a gruesome scene, with Yannick kneeling in the bathroom with multiple stab wounds to her head.
Yannick Brea’s family was furious with the police response.
“When I heard what happened I went crazy,” said Yannick’s sister Gina Bumond, a nurse who lives in Flatbush. “I heard police didn’t knock the door down. Are you serious? She could be alive today.”
Bumond described her sister as a loving parent devoted to her sons.
Serge Marcel, 53, Yannick’s brother, said Michael had no history of mental illness or substance abuse the family was aware of.
“I never knew this kid could do something like that,” he said.
Michael Brea was taken into custody and then to Kings County Hospital, where he is undergoing psychiatric evaluation. Charges are pending against Brea, whom Kelly said had no criminal record.
Two other neighbors, Vernal Bent and his mother Phyllis, said they heard yelling from the floor below.
“I heard a shriek and a woman yelling ‘help me,’¤” Vernal Bent said. “We called 911 and we kept hearing screams and then we didn’t hear them any more. Michael was chanting Biblical phrases and kept calling for Moses, Jerusalem and the ‘architect of the universe,’”
“I think he just snapped,” Bent said. Police spent nearly 45 minutes trying to get into the apartment, Bent said
Phyllis, who refused to give her last name, said she was friends with Yannick and that the woman would frequently bring them traditional Haitian food.
Mustafa Nashal, who owns a deli a half block away, said Yannick would make him her special chicken and rice a few times a week.
“She treated me like a son. She’d come in every day for five or ten dollars of Lottery tickets. She was here last night,” said Nashal, 33.
She once worked at the Marriott at the World Trade Center but left after the hotel was destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, neighbors said.
She currently worked at another Marriott in Brooklyn as a housekeeper, and was also a regular at St. Theresa Avila not far from her Park Place home.
Clare said Michael’s twin brother Marcel, a martial arts instructor, also lived with his mother, who neighbors said was separated from her husband but still on friendly terms.
In addition to his acting, Michael Brea was also an entrepreneur who at one time owned a Subway franchise at 1709 Broadway in Brooklyn. A friend said in 2008 Brea gave out hundreds of free turkey subs on Thanksgiving to feed the less fortunate, a charitable effort inspired by his mother, who was also known to cook for those in need.
But the Subway parent corporation took back the franchise roughly a year ago because of poor performance. Creditors had also placed several liens against the business when Brea owned it, court records show.
Michael talked about his life and goals in an article posted on BelFim.com, a Haitian Internet movie database.
“I remember growing up, and my mother was always feeding people who were less fortunate. My parents raised me to always share and to give charity in the name of ? !” he wrote.
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crazy ass dude
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ceremonial swords are pretty dull
that chick must not have been real gully -
yeah, this does seem like a questionable weapon to use in a crimeKTULU IS BACK wrote: »ceremonial swords are pretty dull -
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Michael Brea says he killed his mom Yannick Brea with a sword after she asked him to pour water from a ? in which she was cooking chickens in. An unhinged actor Thursday calmly described hacking his beloved mother to death with a sword because he believed a demon had taken hold of her soul.
“I didn’t ? her. I killed the demon inside her,” Michael Brea said in a chilling hourlong interview with the Daily News in the prison ward at Bellevue Hospital.
When told his mother, Yannick Brea, 55, had died in the grisly assault early Tuesday, Michael was unrepentant.
“So be it. It was the work of ? ,” he said.
Speaking with white-hot intensity and unflinching confidence, Brea described a shadowy descent into a world filled with Masonic symbolism and black magic beginning late Sunday when he snapped awake.
“I was sleeping in my bedroom. ? came above my bed and reached his arm to me,” said Brea, wearing a light-blue prison jumpsuit and slippers. He told his tale while sitting unhandcuffed on a blue chair behind a wood table.
“I said, ‘? , is my time on earth over?’ I heard a voice say, ‘Yes Michael, today is your last day.’ I asked if I could say goodbye to my family.”
The 31-year-old Brea said he told no one about the dream, but the following afternoon, he said he received another sign while at the Prince Hall Masonic Temple in Harlem, which he’d joined a week earlier.
There, he said, a man approached and tried to put a curse on him.
“[He] kept trying to put something in my hand but wouldn’t show it to me. I kept opening my hand. It was a Freemason pin. I wouldn’t touch it,” Brea said.
Felt like Neo from ‘The Matrix‘
He began feeling ill and left, and while riding the train back to Brooklyn, he said, strangers began speaking to him about his mother.
“I felt like Neo from ‘The Matrix.’ I began hearing voices and feeling powerful,” Brea said. “They were asking about the difference between mom and mother. It was a sign.”
When he returned to the family’s Prospect Heights apartment, the bit-part actor who once appeared on “Ugly Betty,” hugged his mother, a ? -fearing Haitian immigrant with whom relatives say he had long been very close.
“I knew I would never see my mother again,” he said. “I gave her lots of love.”
He went to his room and lit candles, placed a dagger and a 3-foot ceremonial Freemason sword by his side.
Investigators said he had stolen the sword from the Masonic lodge, but Brea insisted his father had given it to him when he was a child.
“It’s a powerful sword,” he said.
Brea also arranged three saint cards around him – including one of Saint Jude holding a sword.
His mother then knocked on the door and asked him to go to the kitchen and pour water from a ? in which she was cooking three chickens.
“I looked at these chickens lying dead in the ? and a voice told me it was a sacrifice. It was black magic,” he said.
Brea left the chickens alone and went back to his room. When his mother asked why he did not do what she had asked, he said she spoke with a different voice.
“She had the voice of the demon. I opened the door with the dagger at my side and the sword,” he said.
“I asked, ‘Do you believe in ? ?’ She said, ‘No, Michael no,’ and began screaming. I began slashing her like this,” he said, bringing his right hand down in a violent hacking motion.
Sickening trail of blood
Brea chased his mother from room-to-room, repeatedly swinging the sword, leaving a sickening trail of blood in his wake.
“I didn’t want to ? her right away. I wanted to give her time to get right with ? ,” he said.
By this point police had arrived outside the apartment, but Brea said he had no doubt he would be able to finish the job.
“I was slashing my mom and I heard the police knocking on the door yelling, ‘Michael, open up, Michael, open up,’ but I knew they wouldn’t open the door and stop me because the spirits were protecting me,” he said.
“I just kept cutting her. No one could stop me. I was doing the work of ? ,” he said.
“I’m named after a saint myself – Saint Michael. He was protecting the house from the police. They weren’t allowed to enter the apartment.”
Neighbors complained that the officers who initially responded failed to do enough to get inside and stop the sword-wielding maniac before his mother died.
Police officials said the officers handled the situation properly and were waiting for better equipped and trained Emergency Service Unit cops to arrive.
When they finally broke the door down, cops found a trail of ? footprints and handprints on the walls and floors, and Yannick Brea crumpled on her knees in the bathroom.
Her son stood amid the carnage with the sword in one hand and a Masonic Bible in the other.
“I heard voices telling me how powerful I was, saying ‘Oh he’s good,’” Brea said.
While recounting the gruesome murder, Brea showed no remorse, and his eyes stayed locked on a reporter.
His intensity only broke for a moment when he said he was thirsty and his mouth was dry. Guards gave him a wet towelette to dab at his lips.
Brea said he is convinced he did the right thing.
“Grand Architect of the Universe means ? ,” he said, referring to an expression neighbors said he shouted as he was being removed from the ? scene. “I was praising ? . To you it might sound silly, but in my culture demons are very real -
So, what's the difference from ? talking to Michael and influencing him to do these things and ? talking to people in the past? 2000 years ago he could have been a prophet, now he's just crazy.
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Its obvious he became possesed after visiting the Masonic Temple. Thats a Demons haven.
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Sad story indeed. I don't like the Masonic tilt it's being given though. 2 things stand out.. First if he had just "joined" a Masonic Lodge and while there a Brother tried to present him with a Masonic pin, why would he flinch away from it and not touch it when it's an emblem of the organization he just joined? And "curse"? Seriously? The second thing is the term "Masonic Bible", we do not have our own Bible. Yes you can purchase a Christian Bible and have the G Square and Compasses embroidered etc on it but that doesn't make it a Masonic Bible, that makes it a Bible belonging to a Mason. The man obviously had a SEVERELY EXTREME mental breakdown. I hope his mom is resting in peace because she was murdered in a horrific manner. As for him I hope he gets the help and punishment that he needs\deserves.
