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23-year-old man charged with manslaughter in death of his mother on the Cape
The Sandwich man allegedly pushed his mother, causing her to fall and hit her head.
A grand jury indicted a 23-year-old Sandwich man Friday for his alleged role in the death of his 71-year-old mother last July.
The Cape and Island District Attorney’s Office reports that Thomas Hayes is charged with manslaughter and assault and battery on a person over 60 or disabled causing serious bodily injury.
According to the DA’s office, law enforcement was called to a private residence in Sandwich in the late hours of July 24. On arrival, first responders found an unconscious 71-year-old woman on the ground of a second-floor bedroom, bleeding from a laceration to her head.
An investigation showed that the woman was Hayes’s mother.
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Hayes allegedly told law enforcement that he had pushed his mother and that she had fallen to the floor.
First responders took the woman to Cape Cod Hospital, where medical workers discovered that she also had a broken neck. The woman died at the hospital on July 30.
The DA’s office says that Hayes was on probation out of Barnstable District Court at the time of the incident. As a result, he was sentenced to one year at the Barnstable House of Correction for violating his probation.
Hayes will be arraigned at Barnstable Superior Court on a future date.
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