Orange County woman pleads guilty to killing her mom in 2022

An Orange County woman pleaded guilty to killing her 75-year-old mother in 2022.

On Wednesday, Paula Lee Decoteau pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Cheryl Garner Medlin. According to court documents, she will serve a minimum sentence of 15 and a half years to a maximum sentence of 19 and two-thirds years in prison.

According to investigators, Decoteau shot her mother one time in the forehead at their home on Spruce Pine Trail just after midnight on Dec. 12…

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