A man who had only just emerged from prison where he spent an alarming number of years has murdered his own mother in cold blood.
Steven Pratt
A 47-year-old man, Steven Pratt, has allegedly killed his 64-year-old mother two days after completing a 30-year prison sentence for a 1984 murder conviction.
According to People Magazine, Pratt, pleaded guilty to manslaughter, admitting his role in his mother's beating death.
Pratt, an Atlantic City resident who lived with his mother, repeatedly struck his mother Gwendolyn Pratt in the head the morning of Oct. 12, 2014. Police responded to the Pratt home that morning and found Gwendolyn's lifeless body inside.
The statement says officers immediately took Pratt into custody and an autopsy later revealed the victim died from blunt force trauma to the head.
Pratt faces 25 more years behind bars when he is sentenced within the next few months, police say.