The ex-con brother of Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan plead guilty Monday to attacking their dad, 70-year-old Daniel Kerrigan, and leaving him to die on a bloody kitchen floor.
Mark Kerrigan – a convicted petty thief, who had been living in his parents’ basement in Stoneham, Massachusetts – told cops he attacked his father in an angry rage because the elder Kerrigan wouldn’t let him use the phone, a newly-released police report reveals.
According to The Boston Herald, Daniel and Mark began yelling and shoving one another. The police report states that Mark Kerrigan put his “hands around his father’s neck” and the man fell to the floor. Mark told authorities that he believed his father was “faking it.” Daniel Kerrigan was taken to nearby Winchester Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Mark was reportedly intoxicated when authorities arrived on the scene and had to be subdued with pepper spray.
Mark, 45, has entered a Not Guilty plea to a charge of assault on battery on an elderly person. If convicted, he could spend up to 10 years behind bars.