NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – A woman convicted of killing her mother nearly one year ago at a senior home in Norfolk was sentenced Friday to serve 40 years.
Woman pleads guilty to murdering mother, grandson also charged in Norfolk
No remorse and no accountability. That is how the prosecution described 53-year-old Heather Cummings in court Friday, as they recounted the events of June 30 of last year. Police were called to a senior living home on Poplar Hall Dr. in Norfolk and found 81-year-old Cleo Loizides dead. Her daughter, Heather Cummings, at first told detectives her mother probably died of natural causes, then later confessed she held her wrists down while her son 24-year-old Clifton Cummings strangled his grandmother with the strap of a handbag he bought at a Norfolk dollar store.
The prosecution went on to explain that she held her own mother down as she fought for her last breath, and the prosecution recounted that as this was happening Cummings told her mother quote “this is for best because you know what you did to my dad.”
In the end, Cummings took the stand saying she wished her mother were still here and that she misses her everyday. Cummings also alluded that she believes her mother killed her father. At one point in her final remarks she begins to describe her mother as a troubled women who once pushed her down the stairs and slapped her when she was just six years old…