Inset: Russell Antonio Moore (Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office). Background: The home where Moore allegedly beat his mother to death (WFLA).
A 36-year-old man in Florida was arrested after he was allegedly caught on tape brutally beating his own mother to death with a brick, then telling an emergency dispatcher that he “put her down.” Russell Antonio Moore was taken into custody on Monday and charged with one count of premeditated first-degree murder and one count of tampering with physical evidence relating to a capital felony in the death of Shambray Lavern Levy, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Moore at about 8:22 a.m. on Dec. 9, called the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office and began making statements about “being put down by lethal injection” before stating, “There’s a dead body here” and “I put her down.” He identified himself and said the victim was Shambray Lavern Levy, his mother.
