Patrick Halliday

An Ocean City man has been charged with killing his mother at a senior citizen housing complex in the resort, Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey H. Sutherland and Ocean City Police Chief Bill Campbell said in a joint news release Saturday. Jeffrey Surgent, 46, called police about 4 p.m. Friday stating that “he suffers from mental illness, and he just killed his mother,” according to the release. Officers responded to Speitel Commons located at the corner of Sixth Street and West Avenue.