Inset: Jaime Adrian Contreras (KTSM/YouTube). Background: The area of 11755 Ronald McNair Dr. in El Paso, Texas, where Victor Gerardo Contreras, 74, was found dead (Google Maps).
A man in Texas has been charged with murder for allegedly disemboweling his 74-year-old dad, slitting his throat and then leaving him to die at his El Paso home — where cops found his body “rotting” inside last weekend — just two days after the son attacked his father with a hammer and told him, “Give me my power,” after becoming convinced he was an alien, police said.
Jaime Adrian Contreras, 39, was arrested and booked this week in connection with the death of Victor Gerardo Contreras, 74, inside his home at 11755 Ronald McNair Dr., according to the El Paso Police Department.
Charging documents obtained by local NBC affiliate KTSM accuse Jaime Contreras of being obsessed with the idea that an extraterrestrial had taken over his dad’s body and was trying to harvest his organs. Cops say he told them after his arrest that he had been “battling” with Victor Contreras days earlier.
On April 5, the elderly victim called police and reported an incident where Jaime Contreras was attacking him with a hammer. “He was acting crazy again,” the victim’s wife recalled him telling her after the incident, according to KTSM and the charging documents.
An investigation led to cops discovering that Jaime Contreras was allegedly “threatening” his dad and claimed to have “killed his pets.” Officers responded to the call and spoke with both parties, but it wound up being closed out as a non-incident and Jaime Contreras’ mental health was described as being “okay,” KTSM reports.
Court documents from 2023 also outline two other incidents from Jaime Contreras’ past, in which he allegedly walked around his dad’s neighborhood with a decapitated rabbit and another where he had an alleged breakdown over his father being an alien.
Jaime Contreras was booked into the El Paso County jail and charged with murder. His bond was set at $2,000,000.
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