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Son accused of beating mother with bat | Roger VanBlorcom, domestic assault

Roger VanBlorcom
An 81-year-old mother suffered serious injuries when her son allegedly beat her with a baseball bat Wednesday morning at their home, a Murfreesboro Police spokesman said.

Victim Loraine Van Blarcom of Independence Way was admitted to Middle Tennessee Medical Center, spokesman Kyle Evans said.

“She remains in serious condition,” Evans said.

Son Roger Van Blarcom, 45, who lives with her, was charged with attempted first-degree murder. He is being held at Rutherford County Adult Detention Center.

Police were called about 5:45 a.m. to the home off Saddlebrook Drive about a complaint of the mother being struck “multiple times with a baseball bat,” Evans said.

“She had been severely beaten,” Evans said.

Officer Bob Sirising reported several officers responded to the call where the son stated he killed his mother. They heard a woman screaming from pain.

Officers kicked in the back door and entered the home where they found Van Blarcom with blood on his hands “standing over an elderly female who was bleeding and laying face down in the garage,” Sirising reported.

Police ordered the son to put his hands up. Sirising took him into custody.

Paramedics treated the woman while driving her to the medical center.

The mother told Sirising she awoke about 4:30 a.m. because of worries about her husband in a nursing home. Her son came downstairs and asked her, “Do you want to go to heaven?” and struck her with his fists.

“Mrs. Van Blarcom advised she covered her head with her arms, begged Mr. Van Blarcom to stop and then he pulled her off the couch and told her she was the devil and he was ‘punishing her for what she did to him when he was a child,’” Sirising reported.

She accused her son of striking her with the bat and dragging her downstairs to the garage where she heard him say, “I killed her,” the officer reported.

Detective Doug Arrington, who is investigating, obtained an arrest warrant and charged the son.

Roger Van Blarcom was charged in August with simple assault after he was accused of threatening neighbors with a bat.

In that case, Officer Ray Daniel reported neighbor Gregory Robertson accused Van Blarcom of walking into his yard armed with a baseball bat, complaining about drugs, prostitution and traffic.

Van Blarcom told Daniel he warmed the neighbors of the illegal activity. His parents told the officer they feared their son would hurt them.

A hearing on the attempted murder charge is pending in General Sessions Court.

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Member Opinions:
By: Macgyver on 10/14/09
Wow, 45 and living at home. Charge him with being a mooch also!

By: attagirl on 10/14/09
Wow. This is the lowest of the low. Beating his 81 year old MOTHER with a baseball bat?? I'm not a violent person, but jeez, I think I could dish it right back at him without a blink of an eye.

By: Duvics on 10/14/09
This guy is a failure pile in a sadness bowl.

By: spook on 10/14/09
Loser! I hope mom pulls through and kicks his worthless butt out of the house.

By: SocEtTuem on 10/14/09
This mope needs to go away for a very long time. Failure pile? I think he is a pile of something else.

By: Trvlace on 10/14/09
He is a troubled man with some obvious mental problem. Used to lock this type up...in the good old days...

By: blues2 on 10/14/09
This guy's always been a loser. Let's put him away for a long time and hope something bad happens to him.

By: Justus on 10/14/09
Why not wait for the facts rather than just the allegations? For all we know she's been torturing him for 45 years and he finally snapped. Talk about a rush to judgment. What is this? A virtual lynch party?

By: abide on 10/15/09
Another spoiled BRAT that failed to launch.

By: arlbigdaddy on 10/15/09
Justus: The fact IS that he beat his mother with the likely intent to kill her. There are those who know other FACTS about the family that don't justify the son's actions. So why don't you just go with the FACT that we know; that a 45 year old man almost beat to death his 81 year old mother. Save the look into the past for the trial while Mrs. Van Blarcom fights for her life.

By: TheHandymanDave on 10/15/09
Maybe we need to go back to the wild west days.I have a big oak tree in the yard and plenty of room for spectators! Then we can call it a lynch party Justus.


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