A funeral service has been set for a Wildwood woman as her son remains behind bars, charged with her murder.
Jerrylea Vaughn, 77, a retired school teacher, will be remembered in a service set for Saturday at Encounter Church in Wildwood.
Her son, 51-year-old Derek Vaughn, continues to be held without bond at the Sumter County Detention Center. He is facing a charge of homicide.
Jerrylea Vaughn was pleading for help when she called 911 the night of April 6.
“Help me, help me, my son just stabbed me, he is coming to kill me,” she told a dispatcher, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. The dispatcher could hear Jerrylea Vaughn screaming.
Law enforcement raced to the home at 4522 County Road 116.
Derek Vaughn was immediately taken into custody. He said that God told him to get his father’s gun and shoot his mother in the head. So he did.
She was rushed to UF Health Spanish Plaines Hospital in The Villages where she was pronounced dead at 9:41 p.m. Monday.
The home where his mother was killed was the home where Derek Vaughn, born in 1974, grew up. His father, who died in 2016, spent his career with CSX Railroad.