NORFOLK, Va. (TCN) — A woman entered a plea deal this week for strangling her mother to death allegedly with her son at a nursing home over the summer.
Norfolk Circuit Court records show Heather Cummings pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the death of her mother Cleo Loizides on Thursday, March 27. Heather Cummings’ son and suspected co-conspirator, Clifton Cummings, is scheduled to stand trial in August for second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
On June 30, 2024, Norfolk Police Department officers were called to a senior living center for an unresponsive patient. Paramedics arrived and pronounced Loizides, 81, deceased. Detectives reportedly noticed apparent strangulation marks on Loizides’ neck and began investigating her death as a homicide. The mother and son were arrested a little over a week later, on July 9…