Authorities say an apparently hallucinating Florida man used a bedpost to attack a mattress where he thought a man was hiding.
This undated photo provided by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office on Friday, April 26, 2019 shows Felipe Oquendo. According to police, Oquendo, who admitted he was smoking methamphetamines earlier in the day, attacked a bedroom mattress with a bed post and his bare hands, believing a man was hiding inside it.
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. — An apparently hallucinating Florida man used a bedpost to attack a mattress where he thought a man was hiding., The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s office quotes the girlfriend of 37-year-old Felipe Oquendo as saying that he began acting erratically early Friday. The girlfriend told deputies Oquendo thought she was cheating on him with a man he thought he saw in the mattress at their Fort Walton Beach home.
She said Oquendo hit the mattress with a bed post, ripped it apart and locked the bedroom door. She was able to escape and call police.Jail records don’t list a lawyer for him.
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