COTTONWOOD, Ariz. (AP) - A man charged with beating his mother to death with the handle of an ax in her Cottonwood home has been sentenced to about 31 years in prison.
The Daily Courier reports (https://bit.ly/2nVqLsA) 41-year-old Nathaniel Stubbs was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. He also faced charges of aggravated assault, failure to appear in court and tampering with evidence.
Police had been called to do a welfare check on 61-year-old Pamela Shepherd in November 2015 after she hadn’t been seen for four days. They found the woman dead in the trunk of her car in her home’s garage.
Autopsy results showed Shepherd died from blunt force trauma and positional asphyxia.
Stubbs apologized in court Friday, saying he knew what he did was wrong.
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Information from: The Daily Courier, https://www.dcourier.com
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