Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Christian Gomez, 23, used an ax to cut off his mother's head on New Year's Eve, authorities said. 
 
 A Florida man is accused of decapitating his mother with an ax on New Year's Eve because she asked him to put some boxes away, authorities said. 
 
 Christian Gomez, 23, flashed a toothy grin while being booked for first-degree murder Wednesday after his brother called 911 to report the gruesome scene at the house near Tampa around 7:20 p.m., authorities said. 
 
 There, outside the family's Oldsmar home, Pinellas County deputies found the body of 48-year-old Maria Suarez-Cassagne near some garbage cans. The murder weapon was also recovered, they said. 
 
 Gomez had already fled the scene but was found a few blocks away when a 911 call came in about a "suspicious person riding a bicycle in the area," said the sheriff's office. 
 
 After a brief foot chase he was arrested and allegedly admitted to the crime during an interview with detectives, revealing that he had plotted out his mother's death for two days, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri told WFTS. 
 
 Facebook Maria Suarez-Cassagne's headless body was found near garbage cans outside her family's Oldsmar, Fla., home Wednesday evening. 
 
 Gualtieri also said Gomez has a history of mental illness. 
 
 Jailhouse records show he was arrested in 2009 for resisting an officer without violence and disorderly conduct. He was arrested again in March for loitering and prowling. 
 
 Gomez's brother, who met officers outside the home, was found unharmed. 
 
 ngolgowski@nydailynews.com ||||| A Pinellas County man is accused of decapitating his mother on New Year’s Eve with an ax. 
 
 Christian Jose Gomez, 23, admitted to killing his mother, Maria Suarez-Cassagne, 48, after deputies arrested him Wednesday, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. 
 
 The murder occurred about 7:30 p.m. at the Oldsmar home the mother shared with her two sons. 
 
 Deputies said they received a call from Mario Gomez, Cassagne’s other son, saying that his brother had killed their mother. 
 
 "It's just really sad because she's wonderful,” said neighbor Carrie Rivera. “She's really, really nice." 
 
 Investigators said Christian Gomez attacked his mother with the ax in the garage, then put her head in a trash can in a small side yard. 
 
 He then tried to do the same with her body, but wasn’t able to, deputies said. He left, leaving his older brother, who’d been in a bedroom at the time of the murder, to find the gruesome scene. 
 
 "You could definitely see that he was traumatized, and he was just bending down and crying and talking to the police," Rivera said. 
 
 When deputies arrived, Christian Gomez had already fled the home. Deputies set up a perimeter, and Gomez was spotted riding his bike several blocks away. A short foot pursuit began, ending with his arrest. 
 
 Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Gomez admitted to killing his mother and said he was upset that she had asked him to put some boxes away. 
 
 Gomez had a history of mental illness and had been planning to kill her for two days, the sheriff said. 
 
 "In a very calm, cool way he explained what he did, why he did it, what happened, and by talking to him you wouldn't know he had any mental illness, he had any trouble at all. And you know that's very scary," Gualtieri said. 
 
 Gomez is charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond in the Pinellas County Jail. ||||| Story highlights Florida man calls 911 to report his brother just decapitated their mother 
 
 Police found Maria Suarez Cassagne's decapitated body alongside garbage cans 
 
 Sheriff's Office said son was angry over mother's "nagging" 
 
 (CNN) When the cops showed up to a subdivision Wednesday night in Oldsmar, Florida, it wasn't to break up a loud party or for any sort of bacchanalian revelry typical of New Year's Eve. 
 
 No, Mario Gomez called 911 to report something far more sinister and ghastly: His brother had just cut off their mother's head with an ax. 
 
 Christian Gomez 
 
 Responding deputies found the decapitated body of 48-year-old Maria Suarez Cassagne alongside garbage cans outside of the Tampa-area home, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. Her head was inside one of them. 
 
 Gomez told the authorities that his younger brother, Christian Gomez, had fled the scene, but he didn't make it too far. The Sheriff's Office said it found the 23-year-old some 30 minutes later on a bicycle about a mile from his home and took him into custody. 
 
 What could possibly lead a son to be accused of cutting off his own mother's head and then disposing of her body as if trash? 
 
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– A 23-year-old man beheaded his mother with an axe on New Year's Eve and explained to investigators that he was fed up with her nagging him to put some boxes away, authorities in Oldsmar, Fla., say. Cops were called to the Tampa-area home after the older brother of Christian Gomez discovered his mother's decapitated body near garbage cans outside, CNN reports. The younger Gomez had already fled the scene but he was captured a few blocks away after police received a call about a suspicious person riding a bicycle. The local sheriff says Gomez, who has a history of mental illness, confessed to the killing and said he had planned it for two days. "In a very calm, cool way he explained what he did, why he did it, what happened, and by talking to him you wouldn't know he had any mental illness, he had any trouble at all. And you know that's very scary," the sheriff tells WFTS. Gomez, who has been charged with first-degree murder, was arrested in 2009 for resisting an officer without violence and disorderly conduct and in March 2014 for loitering and prowling, reports the New York Daily News.