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Florida man says he killed mom, dog because YouTube videos made him paranoid

A deranged Florida man said he fatally shot both his mom and his dog this week — because YouTube videos he was watching made him paranoid that she was about to be attacked by a stranger, according to a new report.

Colby Glen Larue, 22, told investigators he was watching the videos Tuesday evening when he started worrying that someone would rape or harm his mother, Angela Limbaugh, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by local station WFTV 9.

So Larue grabbed a shotgun — and when it didn’t work, picked up a handgun instead and started pacing on the ground floor of his home, the affidavit said.

Disturbed by the commotion, Limbaugh walked downstairs — where Larue allegedly shot both her and their pit bull in the head, twice.





“Larue advised he killed his mother because he was protecting her from individuals who were supposedly coming to harm her,” the report said.

Then, he told detectives, he ignited his mattress with a lighter, boarded a boat in the back yard and rowed across the lake to a bonfire at another home, according to the report. But the family there demanded he leave — with one resident even grabbing a golf club as a weapon.

So Larue ran bare-chested into a wooded area, and then into a grocery store, where he asked a homeless man wearing an eye patch for a shirt, according to the report.

Then he trudged over to the district attorney’s office, where he surrendered to deputies, the outlet reported.

Meanwhile, firefighters responded to the house fire around 3:20 a.m. Wednesday. Once the fire was knocked down, authorities discovered Limbaugh’s body inside, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.





Larue was arrested at the DA’s office, charged with homicide and first-degree arson of a dwelling.

He’s being held without bond at the Marion County Jail.





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