LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A 68-year-old man faces a murder charge in the death of his 87-year-old mother, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned.
Thomas Nolan, 68, is charged with open murder with the enhancement that the victim is vulnerable or over the age of 60, records said. His mother, Florence Stein, 87, died several days after an alleged attack on Sunday, Jan. 19.
That day, police responded to a call for a domestic battery at an apartment on Valley View Boulevard near Sahara Avenue, documents said. Stein told police her son, identified as Nolan, was acting strange and pushed her. The push resulted in her “hitting her face on a cabinet,” police said, adding Nolan allegedly punched her too.
Police arrested Nolan on a charge of domestic battery and booked him into the Las Vegas City Jail, records said.
Several days later, Stein’s condition in the hospital changed and she became unresponsive, police said. She died in intensive care with blunt force trauma blamed for her fatal injuries.
Police booked Nolan into the Clark County Detention Center on the day of his mother’s death, records said. He refused to appear for his probable cause hearing and was held without bail due to the murder charge.
