Army vet accused of killing mom on Mother’s Day

PACE, Fla. (AP) — An Army veteran is accused of killing his mother at their Florida Panhandle home on Mother’s Day and hitting a deputy’s cruiser with an iron rod.

Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the home Sunday morning and heard yelling and the sounds of someone in distress, The Pensacola News Journal (http://on.pnj.com/1QWsKQN ) reported.

A bloodied 38-year-old Christopher Reed Lynch approached deputies, wielding an iron rod with a hook on the end, a police report said. He became violent and hit a deputy’s cruiser with the rod. The deputy used a stun gun, but Lynch was still trying to punch and kick deputies after repeated shots from the stun gun. Lynch was eventually placed in leg irons and handcuffs.

Deputies found Cheryl Lynch on a blood-covered porch. She told deputies her son hit her but said she couldn’t remember what happened. Her eyelids were swollen shut and she had multiple cuts on her face. She was taken to the hospital where she died.