CHATSWORTH, Ga. — A Chatsworth man, who told emergency medical responders he had taken acid mushrooms earlier in the day, held a knife to his 81-year-old mother’s throat, stabbed a dog in the neck and began cutting himself as Murray County officers closed in to arrest him, according to an incident report.

Marvin Ray Ledford, 57, of 1331 Brown Bridge Road, was charged Monday by the Murray County Sheriff’s Office with aggravated assault (family violence), battery, simple assault (family violence), possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, cruelty to animals and exploitation and intimidation of an elderly individual.

According to the report, Nancy Green told a deputy that Ledford, her son, became angry because he did not like the television channel she was watching at their house on Brown Bridge Road. He hit the screen with his hand and pulled out a butcher’s knife and held it against her neck. A deputy noted a red mark on the left side of Green’s neck. She told a deputy Ledford “was pushing the knife against her neck as she attempted to push it away.”

Ledford went to the kitchen and was looking through drawers where several knives were located. Green said she was able to “run out of the residence” and get help from her brother-in-law who lives next door.

When two other officers arrived, Ledford was seen through a bedroom window “naked and lying on his bed.” As the officers went into the home, Ledford “picked up several knives and began cutting himself all over his body.” The report said Ledford had “approximately 11 knives.” A deputy saw Ledford throwing the knives off the bed as the officers approached and hiding a knife under the mattress. He placed his hands behind his back when the officers entered the bedroom.

The officers also found the stove on, and Ledford had “used the flames to burn his hair on the top of his head.” The report said the stove was a threat to “catch the house on fire.”

Green identified the knife Ledford had held against her throat, and the same knife was used to stab Green’s dog in the “top neck area.” Green said on Wednesday that the dog is going to be OK and that her son needs help in a mental facility.

This is at least the third run-in with authorities for Ledford since 2011.

In November 2016, he was arrested by Chatsworth police officers after doing doughnuts in a pickup truck behind the police department and threatening an officer with a long metal pole with a hook attached. Following a chase, an officer used a Taser on Ledford. He told officers the only thing wrong with him was the “voices in his head.”

In February 2011, authorities said Ledford had a standoff with Murray County Sheriff’s Office deputies before surrendering to then-Sheriff Howard Ensley. After the 40-minute standoff ended, Ledford told authorities “National Security” had “planted thoughts in his head.”

Ledford is being held at the Murray County jail awaiting a bond hearing.