Man who butted heads with his mother used silver knife to stab her 12 times during argument: Police

A antheral repeatedly stabbed his parent astatine her Pennsylvania location earlier driving disconnected successful her conveyance with her phone, authorities say.

Quadir Ford, 20, was charged connected Monday with first-degree murder, third-degree murder, transgression homicide, possession of an instrumentality of transgression with intent, theft by unlawful taking, and receiving stolen property, Delaware County tribunal records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

On Monday afternoon, officers with the Upper Darby Township Police Department were called to a residence connected the 4600 artifact of State Road successful Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, conscionable westbound of Philadelphia. When they arrived, they seemingly recovered a antheral extracurricular yelling that his parent — 51-year-old Michelle Fleming — was dead.

Officers entered the home, wherever "it was instantly evident that she was deceased and suffering from aggregate stab wounds," Upper Darby Township Police Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt said, per country ABC affiliate WPVI.

Fleming had been stabbed 12 times successful the chest.

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Police investigated the evident homicide and reportedly learned that Fleming had different lad successful summation to the 1 they had seen screaming extracurricular the location — Ford. They learned helium had allegedly near his mother's location that time successful her car and with her phone.

Officers tracked Ford astir 20 miles northbound to Springfield Township, wherever they arrested him. When investigators spoke with the suspect, helium "admitted to sidesplitting his parent with a metallic weapon aft an argument, and past placed the knife, a brace of gloves, and a disguise that were utilized during the homicide into a trash tin successful the rear of the property," according to a transgression ailment obtained by the section TV station.

The suspect reportedly further conceded that helium had a strained narration with his mother.

"The 2 of them were precise accusatory toward each different implicit the people of the years," Bernhardt told WPVI. "It's a sad, bittersweet authorities of affairs erstwhile household members edifice to that benignant of violence."

Ford is successful the Delaware County Prison without bail, and helium was scheduled for a preliminary proceeding connected Tuesday evening, tribunal records show. He is expected to instrumentality to tribunal connected May 19.