A 20-YEAR-OLD man has allegedly stabbed his sleeping father in the neck because he was worried about getting circumcised.

Alex Fultz was arrested on Sunday after admitting to attacking his dad with a knife in their Florida home.

According to a police report obtained by Local 10 News, Fultz then dropped the knife and fled. Police later spotted him walking toward them with hands raised.

“Don’t shoot. Don’t shoot,” Fultz told the officers, the report said. “I’m the one who stabbed my dad.”

Fultz told police he was angry and scared that his dad wanted to circumcise him himself instead of taking him to a doctor, the report said.

Police said Fultz — who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autism — was being held without bond on an attempted murder charge.

The victim was taken Jackson South Community Hospital for treatment. His condition is unknown.

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