This Louis Mann admitted to police he viciously strangled his own mother, then beat his father with a flashlight before shooting him. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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Louis Mann was arrested Saturday, a day after police say he killed his folks. He appeared in court Monday to face two counts of aggravated murder, The Youngstown Vindicator reported.
The 31-year-old is being held on $3 million bail, and could face the death sentence.
Mann told police the murders were sparked when he and his mother, Frances, got into an argument in the kitchen of their Jefferson Street home in Warren on Friday, an affidavit filed with the Trumbull County court said.
Mann, an ex-con who was staying with his parents after serving more than a month in jail on a trespassing charge, was fighting with his 53-year-old mother about his child, he told police.
“Louis said he became enraged and grabbed a clothesline from on top of the refrigerator and strangled his mother to death,” the affidavit said.
His father, Philip, then raced into the kitchen after the killing armed with a .22 bolt-action rifle, Mann told police.
Mann snatched the weapon away from his dad, then unleashed “31 years of rage on his father’s head.”
Mann struck the 59-year-old repeatedly in the head with a flashlight, then shot him, the documents stated.
Authorities said Mann then stole his father’s 1982 Cadillac DeVille and spent the night with a woman, Atara Broadus, the Vindicator reported.
She told police the two spent the night partying in a motel hot tub before he took her back to his parents’ home and showed her the bodies.
On Saturday, Mann also visited his ex-wife, Tanya, at the Trumbull County jail, the affidavit said.
She was behind bars on a probation violation. During the visit Mann told her his parents were “gone.”
After the visit, Mann’s in-laws called police. He was quickly arrested at a motel with Broadus shortly after the bodies were found.
