MAN, 33, SENTENCED IN MOM'S DEATH.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - A man who beat his mother to death while drunk and led law officers on a 100 mph chase in her car was sentenced Friday to 23 years and eight months in prison. Gary Patrick Gregory, 33, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and other charges in the July 2002 death of 66-year-old Nancy Gregory, a retired Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. nursing instructor. She was found dead in her bed at her Quartz Hill mobile home, after her son was arrested at the end of the chase. Gregory had been drinking the day of the killing and had argued with his mother, prosecutors said. Gregory pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter, elder abuse Elder Abuse Definition Elder abuse is a general term used to describe harmful acts toward an elderly adult, such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional or psychological abuse, financial exploitation, and neglect, including self-neglect. , burglary, assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. and mayhem mayhem (mā`hĕm, mā`əm), in common law, the crime of willfully injuring a person so as to diminish his or her capacity for self-defense. after prosecutors agreed to dismiss a murder charge. The defendant must serve at least 85 percent of his sentence before he is eligible for parole. Coroner's investigators ruled that Nancy Gregory died from blunt-force injury to the head. Deputies went to her home to check on her welfare after her son led authorities on a high-speed chase along Highway 14 through eastern Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. County in her car. A California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officer tried to stop the car after spotting it speeding near 100 mph. After the chase ended with a crash near California City, Gary Gregory held deputies in a standoff for nearly 40 minutes, telling them he was going to kill himself and asking them to kill him. During the standoff, officers became concerned about the welfare of Nancy Gregory, in whose name the car was registered, and tried to telephone her. After several attempts, they contacted Lancaster sheriff's deputies, who went to the mobile home. When repeated knocks on the door went unanswered, a deputy forced open a window and entered the home, where he discovered the body in bed. Friends and neighbors said Gary Gregory was abusive to his mother, and about six months earlier had been evicted from the mobile-home park after a five-hour standoff with deputies at her home. For the chase, the defendant was sentenced in August 2002 in Kern County to three years in prison after pleading no contest to reckless felony evading a peace officer. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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