Man Sentenced To 22 To Life For Killing Adoptive Mother, DA Says

BROOKLYN, NY — A Massachusetts man will spend 22 years to life behind bars after he strangled his adoptive mother to death inside her Canarsie home, the Brooklyn District Attorney announced.

Jayvon Mulzac, 29, was sentenced to prison Wednesday for killing Noreen Mulzac, 70, in her Foster Avenue home in 2017, prosecutors said. Mulzac pleaded guilty to the murder last month.

"This defendant committed a heinous crime by killing his own mother — a beloved and innocent woman," District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement. "He has now accepted responsibility for this senseless murder and we will continue to fight for all victims of familial violence."

On July 13, Mulzac, of Pittsfield, Mass., drove to his mother's home and tied up her neck and feet with various items around the house, including electric cords, prosecutors said. He ransacked her bedroom and robbed her then drove back to Massachusetts leaving her to die in the apartment.

Police found Noreen Mulzac, a retired nurse, four days later still tied up and the medical examiner determined she died from asphyxiation, authorities said.

Video and witnesses tied Mulzac to the murder, and he was on the lam until he was arrested in Pittsfield for assault in August, prosecutors said. He was later extradited to Brooklyn.

The murder wasn't the first time Mulzac attacked his mother inside her Canarsie home. In 2006, Mulzac and two other men broke into the apartment, tied Noreen Mulzac up with duct tape and stole her car, two gold watches, a bracelet, a laptop and cash, the New York Daily News reported.

He spent three years in prison for criminal possession of stolen property for that crime and was released in 2012, according to the News.

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