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| Tyler Ryan Blansit.DeKalb County Sheriff's Office |
A 22-year-old student
reportedly confessed that he killed his mother following an argument over his
grades, officials said.
Tyler Ryan Blansit was arrested
for murder in Mentone, Alabama, on Saturday, according to the DeKalb County
Sheriff's Office. The suspect's mother, Sherry Ann Blansit, was found beaten to
death behind her home on Friday, NBC affiliate WAFF reported.
Investigators say Blansit
admitted to striking his mother in the head after the two clashed over his
academic performance. It appears that Sherry Ann Blansit's death was caused by
"blunt force trauma to the head area," the sheriff's office said.
Blansit is a student at the
University of Alabama-Birmingham.
"Usually we'll have calls
where a parent has whipped a child because of grades, a child has run away
because of bad grades, but we've never had anything like this happen,"
Sheriff Jimmy Harris told WAFF.
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