NORTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (CBS) – A 49-year-old man admitted to killing his mother after attacking an officer in Washington, D.C., the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.
The district attorney’s office said 49-year-old William Ingram was taken into custody in Washington for assaulting an officer and damaging a police vehicle and told several DC Metro officers that he was his mother, 82-year-old Dolores Ingram, had murdered.
So far, William Ingram has only been charged with stealing his mother’s car. More charges will be filed against him in due course, the district attorney’s office said. Officials are investigating Dolores Ingram’s death as a homicide.
Dolores Ingram was found dead Sunday morning in a condominium on Beacon Hill Drive after Bucks County dispatchers received a call from the D.C. area to check on her well-being, the district attorney’s office said.
Investigators found blood on a windowsill outside the first-floor apartment and more blood on the walls and windows, the district attorney’s office said. Officials said the furniture in the apartment was “in disarray.”
The district attorney’s office said officers had to force themselves into the home because the door was locked and the living room appeared to have been cleared.
Officers inside the apartment discovered Dolores Ingram under a pile of furniture and clothing, the district attorney’s office said. The district attorney’s office said an officer noticed her foot, which was cold, and that there “appeared to be no signs of life.” The district attorney’s office said Dolores Ingram appeared to have suffered severe head trauma.
A witness told police they were woken at 1 a.m. Saturday by the sound of loud bangs. The witness viewed her home camera at 1:42 a.m. and told police she saw William Ingram run out of the apartment shirtless, but he returned a minute later.
Several hours later, the camera showed William Ingram leaving the apartment with a duffel bag, and the witness has not seen him since.
The district attorney’s office said William Ingram left in his mother’s 2015 Honda Civic and left his car in the apartment complex’s parking lot.
According to the district attorney’s office, investigators used license plate readers to track William Ingram at several locations traveling outside the apartment.
Police were unable to find Dolores Ingram’s key to her Honda Civic during a search of the apartment, but investigators say they did find a key fob for William Ingram’s car next to his mother’s body.
An autopsy on Dolores Ingram will be performed on Tuesday. William Ingram remains in custody in Washington, according to the district attorney’s office.
The homicide is being investigated by the Bucks County DA’s Office and the Northampton Township Police Department, along with assistance from the Metropolitan DC Police Department.
