An Ohio man has been sentenced for stabbing and killing his mother – and injuring his father – after she said he could not spend the night with them.

Kenneth Mortimer, 41, will serve at least the next 45 years in prison, a Hamilton County judge ruled on Friday, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported . Earlier in the same hearing, Mortimer pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, attempted murder, kidnapping, and felonious assault.

The condemned man was originally charged with aggravated murder in the death of his mother, Barbara Mortimer, 75. The stabbing attack occurred at about 4 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2024, at a home on the 3300 block of Palmhill Lane in Green Township.

Kenneth Mortimer had gotten into an argument with his mother "when she told him he could not stay the night in the family hom

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