A Pennsylvania man who murdered his mom and took pictures along with her physique was sentenced to twenty years in jail after receiving a plea deal a lot of the household opposed.
David Sumney, 33, was accused of torturing his mom Margaret, 67, and murdering her in her residence in 2019.
He had documented the crime by taking 277 pictures, together with a number of selfies of blood smeared on his face and his mom’s physique.
Sumney secured a plea deal in August that dismissed fees of first-degree homicide and abuse of a corpse, leaving him with solely a single depend of third-degree homicide.
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David Sumney, 33, was accused of torturing his mom Margaret, 67, and murdering her in her residence in 2019.
(Allegheny County Police Division)
Since he has been behind bars since 2019, he could possibly be launched in as little as 17 years.
“I can not consider I’d let myself get in such a state the place I may do one thing so unhealthy, so horrible. I can not consider what I did, that I killed my very own mom,” Sumney, stated throughout his listening to on Thursday in Allegheny County Court docket. “I can not cease interested by it. I give it some thought day by day. I’m sorry, however sorry doesn’t lower it. I dealt with issues as badly as an individual may have.”
“To my household, to my sisters, and my aunts, I do know it’s unimaginable to forgive me. I don’t forgive myself. I simply wish to allow them to know I’m really sorry,” he continued.
Sumney’s protection requested for a sentence of seven years as a result of he “expressed regret” and attributed his crime to his drug and alcohol use.
Margaret’s household, in the meantime, pushed for a harsher sentence than he finally acquired.
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A Pennsylvania man who murdered his mom and took pictures along with her physique was sentenced to twenty years in jail after receiving a plea deal a lot of the household opposed.
(Allegheny County Police Division)
Her older sister, Mary Ellen, known as Sumney “lower than a chunk of trash” and stated she wished he “obtain the loss of life penalty.” Margaret’s different sister, Ann Shade, urged the courtroom “to not give him a second likelihood.”
Sumney would have confronted life behind bars if he was sentenced for his preliminary fees.
His cousin, Margo, defined she’s going to always remember the “metallic scent” when she entered the blood-soaked residence in 2019.
“He’s the epitome of pure evil,” she stated. “We’ll by no means discover peace with any of this.”
The protection known as two Allegheny jail workers to the stand, considered one of whom described Sumney as a mannequin prisoner who have interaction in Bible research with different inmates. Additionally known as to the stand was a health care provider who argued that Sumney had diminished psychological capability on the time of the homicide due to “extraordinarily excessive doses” of Adderall.
Sumney had documented the crime by taking 277 pictures, together with a number of selfies of blood smeared on his face and his mom’s physique.
(Allegheny County Police Division)
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After the homicide, Sumney had reportedly searched on-line for the way to eliminate his mom’s physique. Amongst his searches have been, “how lengthy does it take earlier than a physique begins to decompose?” and “how lengthy do you wait to eliminate a physique?”
The choose sentenced Sumney to a minimal of 20 years in jail and a most of 40 years.
“You broke her again,” Ellen informed the courtroom. “You paralyzed our mom. And then you definitely simply beat her and beat her. The blood was splattered alongside the partitions. However I feel the sickest half is the photographs. The 277 footage. You solely take footage if you wish to return and see what you probably did.”
Sumney additionally faces one other prison case in Atlantic Metropolis, the place his ex-girlfriend accuses him of waterboarding and strangling her in a resort room in July 2019.
