A woman who admitted to helping kill her 81-year-old mother at a senior living facility in Norfolk was sentenced Friday to 40 years in prison.
Prosecutors described 53-year-old Heather Cummings as showing “no remorse and no accountability” as they recounted the events of June 30, 2024 — the day her mother, Cleo Loizides, was found dead at Commonwealth Senior Living on Poplar Hall Drive.
Initially, Cummings claimed her mother had likely died of natural causes. But during the investigation, she later confessed to holding down her mother’s wrists while her 24-year-old son, Clifton Cummings, allegedly strangled Loizides with a handbag strap he had purchased from a nearby Dollar Tree…