Scared to Death 1
Felony murder charges.
There’s no evidence Whitfield ever touched 79-year-old Mary Parnell. Authorities say he even told the grandmother of five he didn’t want to hurt her, directing her to sit in a chair in her bedroom. But investigators have no doubt he terrified her so much that she died of a heart attack.
Now Whitfield, a 20-year-old with no prior criminal record, is charged with first-degree murder, a rare defendant accused of literally scaring a person to death.
January 31, 2009 at 10:29 am
He did it to himself. Especially if he picked her house to rob because she couldn’t/wouldn’t fight back.