Murderer finishes 30-year term, kills mother after welcome home party, police say

nj.com ^ | Oct. 13, 2014 | Jeff Goldman

[PROCON]

ATLANTIC CITY — A 45-year-old man who on Friday finished serving 30 years in prison is charged with killing his mother two days after being released, authorities said.

Steven Pratt was arrested Sunday morning, less than 48 hours after he was freed from Bayside State Prison for killing his neighbor in 1984.

Gwendolyn Pratt, 64, was found dead in her McKinley Avenue home around 6:30 a.m. Sunday, Atlantic City Prosecutor Jim McClain said. She died of massive blunt injuries to her head.

A welcome-home party for Steven Pratt had just been held, PressofAC.com reported.

[COBOL2Java]

Steven T. Pratt - First murder, age 15

Steven T. Pratt - 2014 Indicted murderer, age 45

Steven T. Pratt - 2015 ObamaCare Navigator.

[going hot]

Welcome home, brother.

CE on UH1H 4/69-3/70 Tuy Hoa to An Lo, across to Kontum, down to Ban me Thuet (sp?)

Pretty country.

[CrazyIvan]

“Recidivisom, not a pretty name is it Hi?”

[going hot]

Agreed re your comment.

I was referring to the statement usually made ,"momma didn't raise no fool" that in this case such was not so.

More correctly, momma had not seen him after the first 15 years.

Sad all around.

[Kirkwood]

Kilt him a b’ar

[woofie]

At least he is consistent

[cloudmountain]

Kilt him a b’ar

YESSSSS! :o)

[Mase]

I’m sure the parole board will send him a strongly worded letter.

[PROCON]

Welcome Home to you too, Brother.

I liked the pretty country too, but from the air hated all the bomb/artillery cratered scenery.

[Churchillspirit]

Yet another news story that makes me admire the chinese criminal justice system......

The son of a friend works in Hong Kong and often travels to China to meet with some government officials.

On one such visit the minister with whom he was to meet arrived late and apologized by saying that he had had to attend a mass execution at a nearby stadium.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

He thought about it for thirty years, evidently.

[going hot]

In the flat lands, and heavily contested areas, the ground was definitely "turned".

There were areas, however, on the coast as well as in the highlands, that would compete with any other paradise imaginable.

[zwerni]

Just a guess that we won’t see too much of this story in the media for fear of appearing racist...

[OldMissileer]

What is it with so many people here who don’t understand when to use “be” in a sentence and when not to.

In ordinary usage that sentence would read: “He a good boy, he getting his life turned around”.

Local differences in dialect.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Corrrection: First murder conviction from a murder he committed at age 15. How many others, how many more yet to be is unknown.

[Dacus943]

"Murderer finishes 30-year term, kills mother after welcome home party, police say"

Truly sad, but part of me is very glad he kept it all in the family...

[billhilly]

Kill him. Don’t spend more money to house him.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Yes, sometimes innocent people are executed. But more often, murderers who are not executed go on to kill again.

Utopia is not an option on this side of the grave.

Justice is an ideal to strive for.

[bk1000]

“I THOUGHT he killed himself a “ba’ar” when he was only 3”

Close. It was “Kilt him a bar, when he wuz only three”. (I had the record as a child and practically wore the grooves out)

[GeronL]

Do you who else killed a bar when they were only 3??

Terry Nation!!

_{That is a stretch, isn't it?}