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Man pleads guilty to killing grandmother with chair

The Associated Press | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 3 months AGO
by The Associated Press
| February 25, 2015 8:01 PM

MISSOULA (AP) — A Montana man has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to beating his grandmother to death with a chair in December 2013, shortly after he was released from the state psychiatric hospital.

Tyler Dan Perry entered his plea to deliberate homicide Tuesday under a deal with prosecutors.

Deputy Missoula County Attorney Jason Marks says the plea agreement calls for a 60-year commitment to the psychiatric hospital when Perry is sentenced on May 12.

Prosecutors charged the 25-year-old Perry with killing his 72-year-old grandmother, Carol Perry, while she was lying on the couch watching television.

Court records say Tyler Perry told investigators his grandmother had a “third eye” and that “everybody knew we had to bash her over the head.”

 

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