High school baseball star, 17, 'beat his mother with a bat then fatally slashed her throat and stabbed her in the eye after Christmas Eve argument'

Sharon Aydelott was found dead in a pool of blood at her Gulf Breeze, Florida, home Tuesday night when a friend came to check on her

William Brandon Aydelott, 17, coldly confessed killing his mother

Detectives say he even smiled as he described the savage attack

Mother and son had been fighting for months and Brandon had been living with a friend

Ms Aydelott was a beloved middle school science teacher



A 17-year-old high school baseball star has been charged with murder after beating his mother with a bat then viciously hacking her to death on Christmas Eve, police say.



Police found Sharon Hill Aydelott in a pool of blood at her home in Gulf Breeze, Florida, with her throat slashed and a large kitchen knife sticking out of her eye socket about 6pm Tuesday.



Her son, William Brandon Aydelott, a promising pitcher on the Gulf Breeze High School baseball team, was arrested and confessed to killing her after a heated argument, authorities say.



Horrific: Sharon Hill Aydelott was viciously hacked to death by her son William Brandon Aydelott, 17, (left), police say.The two had been fighting since September



Ms Aydelott was found dead in a pool of blood at her home in Gulf Breeze, Florida, about 6pm on Tuesday night

Ms Aydelott was found dead in her home after a friend stopped by to check on her, the Northwest Florida Daily News reports.



Brandon had been staying at a friend's house on-and-off since September because of a rocky relationship between mother and son, police say.



Detectives say that after the murder, he fled the home and went back to the house where he had been staying.



Police tracked Brandon back to the friend's home about three hours after finding the gruesome murder scene.



After police took Brandon into custody, he coldly admitted to brutally slaughtering his mother.



Detectives say he even smiled slightly as he confessed to the horrific crime.

Brandon Aydelott made a name for himself as a promising high school pitcher and had been scouted by universities - including possibly the University of Alabama



The 6-foot-3, 200-pound teen described in detail how he repeatedly smashed his mother with a baseball bat.



He then attacked her with a large kitchen knife, slashing her multiple times and cutting her throat before driving the blade through her eye.



Detectives say he was wearing clean clothes. The found only a small splotch of dried blood on his wrist.



Brandon Aydelott, a right-handed pitcher with a hard 80mph fastball, was being scouted by college baseball teams - including, possibly, the University of Alabama.



'Pitching tomorrow at bama stadium #lego,' he tweeted in June.



Ms Aydelott was a beloved science teacher at Holley-Navarre Middle School, where she had been teaching seventh and eighth graders for the last 15 years.



