Pa. man allegedly fatally stabbed mother in the neck, fled, and accessed her bank account

ALTOONA, Pa. (TCD) — A 30-year-old man stays hospitalized after allegedly fatally stabbing his 61-year-old mom throughout an argument and leaping off the second flooring of an airport parking storage.

On Wednesday, Feb. 14, shortly earlier than 8 a.m., Allegheny County Police Division officers have been dispatched to the Pittsburgh Worldwide Airport in reference to a person who jumped from the second flooring of a parking storage. Officers looked for the person, later recognized as Joshua Leyo, however couldn’t discover him.

Leyo known as from a stairwell within the storage looking for medical care, the place he was positioned and transported to a neighborhood hospital for critical accidents.

In response to a information launch from the Altoona Police Division, later that day, shortly after 1:40 p.m., officers responded to a house within the 200 block of East Maple Avenue, the place they discovered Maureen Mazenko useless in the lounge with a stab wound to the neck.

Altoona Police found the sufferer’s son, Leyo, lived together with her previous to the deadly stabbing. He allegedly used his mom’s checking account and took an Uber to Pittsburgh and made different purchases. On Feb. 13, someday earlier than allegedly killing his mom, Leyo went to the emergency room to get remedy for a hand laceration.

Allegheny County Police advised Altoona Police Leyo had suffered critical accidents after leaping from the second flooring of the storage and stays hospitalized at Allegheny Common Hospital.

Officers from each police departments went to talk with Leyo, who “confessed that he grew to become engaged in a verbal argument with Mazenko and stabbed her within the neck.”

Following the stabbing, Leyo stated he fled the house, believing his mom was useless.

Leyo stays in police custody on the hospital. Upon his launch, he shall be extradited again to Blair County and arraigned on prices of first-degree homicide, Altoona Police stated.

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