I'm Scared My Brother Is Going To Kill My Mom

Location: Colorado USA

My adult brother (age 27), who lives with my mom (age 60), is in a mental health downwards spiral and is getting worse. He is also getting violent.

To keep it brief, he is breaking with reality, seeing demons everywhere and declaring himself a prophet of God, etc. When my mom doesn't listen to his lectures and sermons that can last hours he gets enraged and shoves her down into chairs, pins her to the wall with a table when she tries to get away and restrains her from her phone to keep her from calling the police.

My mom and I are trying to get him in a place where he won't hurt her, and hopefully, anyone else. The police have been there many times now, each time letting him off with a warning. My brother is smart and is able to charm his way out of a lot of shit. the last time she tried to get him on a psych hold, they sent him back in a day. In the most recent police visit, she was told that they can't do anything without a protective order.

So she tried to get a protective order. She was told he was too mentally ill for her to go that path, and she has to try and get him in a guardianship.

We are just being yanked around, and nothing works. We tried to put in cameras, and he just disables them, and we can't get proof he did it. I have made police reports, too. No one cares.

I don't know what to do. I want to help my brother, but at this point, I would prefer him in jail than hurting my mom anymore.

I'm scared he is going to kill her. Please give me any advice you can give.