Mississippi authorities say that a 17-year-old beat his grandmother to death inside a church and then went to get help for her, confessing to the grisly killing just hours later.
Jadynn Hamilton faces a first-degree murder charge in the beating death of his 73-year-old grandmother, Ollie Hamilton, the Monroe Journal reported.
"This is a tragedy of the worst kind because you've got a beloved church member, family member and community member killed and you come to find out within 24 hours she was killed by another beloved family member," Sheriff Kevin Crook told the Monroe Journal.
"If somebody is not able to control their impulses and they reach that point, I don't think it really matters who the victim is at the time. If it got them to that level of anger, they're going to lash out at whoever – it just happened to be his grandmother," he said.
According to the newspaper, Hamilton was found dead at Smith Chapel Holiness Church near the kitchen after police answered a 911 call at about 5:45 p.m. on October 29.
"The longer that investigation went, evidence started pointing in a certain direction. A young man had supposedly gone for help early on after the attack. We ended up bringing him in last night, and he confessed to the crime," Crook told the Monroe Journal.
