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You'd be hard-pressed to find a more perfect caricature of America's wildest, bawdiest and most unintelligible impulses than Florida Man. As the Internet's most notorious citizen, Florida Man isn't a single person, let alone a single resident of Florida. He's an amalgamation of the characters who populate the ridiculous news stories that often trickle out of the Sunshine State. Florida Man is a raunchier version of the Onion's mild-mannered Area Man, a caricature, with a wink and a nod, to our fellow Americans. Florida Man is best known for his outlandish conduct, which ranges from the bizarre (carrying a meth...

January 1, 2015 Sheriff: Fla. Man Decapitated Mom With Ax On New Year's Eve OLDSMAR, Fla. - A 23-year-old Tampa-area man is accused of decapitating his mother with an ax on New Year's Eve, reports the Tampa Bay Times. Christian Gomez, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his mother, Maria Suarez-Cassagne, 48, who authorities say was killed in her Oldsmar home. Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Gomez had been upset with his mother because she wanted him to move boxes around the house, reports the paper. Gualtieri also reportedly said the 23-year-old harbored resentment towards his...

OLDSMAR, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man is charged with first-degree murder after his mother was found decapitated outside their home on New Year's Eve. According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Mario Gomez called 911 on Wednesday evening and told dispatchers that his brother Christian had killed their mother and cut off her head.

Oldsmar man arrested for decapitating mother over chores, deputies sayPosted: Jan 01, 2015 12:09 PM CST Updated: Jan 02, 2015 2:50 AM CST By WFLA.com web staff   Christian Jose Gomez booking photo (Photo: Pinellas County Sheriff's Office)   The Oldsmar home where deputies say a man decapitated his mother   Maria Suarez-Cassagne OLDSMAR, FL (WFLA) - A man has been arrested for murder after deputies say he decapitated his mother at the family's Oldsmar home on New Year's Eve, all because of a chore he didn't want to complete. The  County Sheriff's Office has charged 23-year-old Christian Jose Gomez...

A schizophrenic Florida man chopped off his mother's head with an axe because she kept nagging him about chores, police said Thursday. Christian Jose Gomez, 23, who has several previous arrests, was booked on a charge of first-degree murder for the grisly New Year's Eve crime in Oldsmar. He allegedly told police he had been planning the attack for two days because he was in a fit of pique over his mother's requests that he put some boxes in the attic, NBC station WFLA reported. Gomez put his mother's head a garbage can but couldn't lift her body into it...