A 19-year-old man called 911 and reported that he had overdosed on cough medicine, which lead him to brutally kill and then mutilate his roommate.

In a 911 call that was released late Tuesday morning, Michael Anderson, who was charged with murder on Monday, is heard telling the 911 operator that he killed his roommate, Stephen Star.

"I took some pills and, um, the pills made me go mad and I murdered my roommate," Anderson is heard on the 911 call that was made around 4:45 am Monday. "I shot him three times and then I used an axe and mutilated his body."

Anderson was charged after Starr was found dead early Monday morning in Catawba County. The 911 call prompted police to the location.

The murder occurred on Ruth Drive in a home in which the two shared just south of the Hickory city limits. In the 911, Anderson said that he overdosed on cough medicine and that the medicine "makes me feel a little weird and I took too many" pills.

Anderson also talks about having been on ADHD medicine in the past. Anderson told reporters as he was taken to jail that he loved the victim, Stephen Starr, "as a friend."

In the 911 call, Anderson talked about how the two met, some history between them and alludes to what might have spurred the incident.

"I was straight and I wanted to go bisexual just to experiment and I went to a gay club and I met him and I went to his house," Anderson said in the 911 call. "And he took me in and I turned straight again and he wanted to touch me and stuff and I wouldn't let him and he kept trying and I waited until he went to sleep and then I shot him 3 times and then I mutilated him very badly."

Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid said Starr was shot several times with a handgun and a shotgun.

He also suffered several stab wounds and had been struck more than once with an axe, Reid said.