An Indian-origin man in the US has been arrested for allegedly murdering his 66-year-old father by bludgeoning him with a sledgehammer over a comment made while playing puzzles.
Vinayak Shanbhag, 33, has been charged with first degree murder after he pummeled his father Panduran Shanbhag repeatedly on the head with a 10-pound sledgehammer while he was sleeping, the Dayton Beach News Journal reported.
When the police arrived at the family's Holly Hill home in Florida last Saturday, they discovered a grisly scene where even the bedroom walls were "covered in blood."
Vinayak told police that he and his father had been "playing puzzles" and his father made a remark that bothered him, the police said.
Vinayak said he thought about the remark all night and decided to attack his father, an arrest report said.
The victim's wife told police she went to check on her husband Pandurang, whom she has a separate room from because of her arthritis, at 6 am when she heard him coughing in bed.
There she found him vomiting blood and extremely bloody. Her son, soon after, came into the room and said, "I did it," according to the police report.
The wife told police he did not say anything else and she called 911.
Pandurang is listed in the Daytona Beach university's website as a chemistry professor in the School of Science, Engineering and Math.
Vinayak majored in chemistry at Bethune-Cookman and graduated in 2000.
