Man Pleads Guilty To Killing Elderly Mother

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A 63-year-old man has pleaded guilty to killing his 89-year-old mother because he was upset by all the bedbugs in her apartment.

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Friday that Michael Gallagher pleaded guilty to second-degree murder early in the week.

Police found Patricia Gallagher dead last December in her downtown Minneapolis apartment after Michael Gallagher called them, admitting to the murder.

She had died as a result of blows to the head with a sculpture as well as strangulation.

This week, a court-appointed psychologist said Michael Gallagher was suffering from mental illness and didn't know that he was doing anything wrong at the time of the murder.

A review of the psychologist's report will precede an order expected next week.