Brad George, a 16-year-old from Everett, Washington, has been arrested for battering his adoptive mother to death with a dumbbell on February 6.

George gave a tearful interview after his mom, Georgina, was found bludgeoned to death with a purple dumbbell in her room. The teen said he called 911 after he found their front door open when he returned from school.

But police became suspicious when they found a twin purple dumbbell in his bedroom. At first, George denied everything, but on Sunday, police say, he confessed. On Thursday night he broke a security lock on his mom's door and entered her room. He waited until he heard her snoring, then bashed her head at least three times.

George had a history of mental illness and violent outbursts and is a student at Overlake Speciality School for special needs children. He previously had disturbing hallucinations involving his mother as a small clown with blood coming out of her mouth and making a sculpture from her severed head. He was receiving treatment but stopped taking his medication on February 1 and had not slept in three days.

George is believed to have suffered a psychotic episode before the murder. George reportedly claimed that Latshaw was trying to poison him with bleach, and that he killed her to protect himself.

After the murder, George cleaned up the blood and tried to make it look like a fatal burglary had occurred. Then he went to school.

George faces charges of first degree murder and will be tried as an adult. He was ordered to remain in jail in lieu of $500,000 cash-only bail during a brief hearing on Monday in the juvenile division of Snohomish County Superior Court.

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