Inset: George Beemer. Background: Deputies investigate after Beemer allegedly shot his mother to death at their Fort Myers, Florida, home (Lee County Sheriff’s Office).
A Florida man is accused of fatally shooting his mother while the two looked directly at each other, later telling a friend he “had enough” before allegedly setting her body on fire because she had said she “wanted to be cremated.”
George Beemer, 23, is facing charges of second-degree murder, arson and abuse of a corpse. According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, Lee County Sheriff’s Office deputies were first called around 10 a.m. Saturday to a home in the 11000 block of Ranchette Road in Fort Myers after Beemer dialed 911 to report chest pains.
Roughly 30 minutes later, deputies were sent back to the same address after a fire was reported. The 911 caller, identified as Beemer’s friend, told deputies that Beemer had admitted to killing his mother, the affidavit states. When officers entered the home, they discovered the “burnt body” of a woman.
Investigators believe the victim is Beemer’s mother, though officials said she had not yet been positively identified “due to the body being severely burned,” according to the affidavit. Authorities also recovered a firearm with a suppressor near the body.
Detectives interviewed the friend who reported the blaze. He described Beemer as someone who “not having many friends, a lover of firearms and constantly having issues with his mother and father,” deputies wrote. The friend also said Beemer had stated “multiple times in the past that he wants to kill his mom,” though he believed at the time that Beemer was “just talking s—,” according to investigators.
The friend told detectives that Beemer called him that morning and asked him to come over. After he arrived, Beemer allegedly said he had killed his mother because he “had to do it,” and then set the body on fire. Beemer allegedly brought the friend inside the house and showed him the body.
After leaving the home, the two “smoked some weed” before Beemer called 911 about chest pains, the affidavit says. Once Beemer was taken away by ambulance, the friend contacted authorities to report the fire. He told deputies he had been afraid to call police while Beemer was present because Beemer had several guns.
Deputies took Beemer to the police station for an interview after he was given his Miranda rights and left the hospital. Beemer allegedly admitted to shooting his mom and pouring gasoline around her body and setting it on fire because “she wanted to be cremated.”
“George stated his mother has constantly put him down, and has molested him, and today was the day he had enough,” deputies wrote. “George stood in front of his mother, they looked each other in the eyes and she screamed prior to him shooting her, and then setting her on fire.”
The defendant said his mom was dead when he torched her remains.
“This is one of the most horrific acts of violence imaginable,” Sheriff Carmine Marceno told local ABC and NBC affiliate WZVN/WBBH. “The cruelty in this case is beyond comprehension, and I am incredibly proud of the swift, coordinated response by our deputies, fire and EMS personnel, and Major Crimes detectives, whose relentless work uncovered the truth, and justice began without delay.”
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