A convict with a tattooed head and an extended rap sheet for violent crimes allegedly beat his father to demise in North Carolina simply days after getting launched from jail.
Derek Steven Hughes, 41, had been paroled for simply six days when he killed his father, 74-year-old Steve Hughes, early Tuesday in a combat over cash, in keeping with police and members of the family.
The daddy died from “accidents sustained throughout a bodily assault” in his trailer, police in Gaston County police mentioned, with out elaborating.
The sufferer’s son was arrested later that day in Kings Mountain, not removed from his dad’s Gaston County trailer, and charged with first-degree homicide.
Derek Hughes had been launched from jail on parole on Aug. 6 after serving time for drug expenses, in keeping with WBTV.
Earlier than his newest stint behind bars, he was beforehand locked up for expenses together with assault on a feminine, assault by strangulation, speaking threats and different offenses, data present.
Steve Hughes’ daughter instructed WBTV her father was “the very best man you could possibly ever meet” and liked to work on vehicles, camp and fish.
”I’m getting justice for my father,” the sufferer’s daughter mentioned Tuesday. “I’ll go to the tip of the earth to get justice for him.”
Derek Hughes is being held on the Gaston County jail with out bond.
