South Jersey man charged in fatal stabbing and beating of his mother
The attack occurred in December but the victim did not die until June, officials say.
A 25-year-old Maple Shade man has been charged with murder in the stabbing and beating death of his mother, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday.
The alleged attack occurred in December but did not become a homicide case until June 9, when Sheri Horton, 52, died at a Philadelphia care facility, Prosecutor Scott Coffina said in a statement. Horton’s son, Brooks Nelson, who was originally charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault, has since been indicted on murder and related charges by a grand jury.
On Dec. 12, police responding to a call for a domestic disturbance found Horton critically injured outside her residence in the Roberts Mill apartments, the prosecutor said. Officers found Nelson in another part of the complex as he was beating on an apartment door.
The Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office listed Horton’s cause of death as complications from a blunt-impact injury to the head. Horton also had been stabbed during the attack, Coffina said.
Nelson was being detained at the Burlington County Jail in Mount Holly and will be arraigned on the indictment at a later date.