Man Now Faces Murder Charge After Death of His Mother, a Former Darien Resident

Charges against the Stamford man who is accused of beating his mother after she confronted him for not taking his medications, have been upgraded to a murder charge.

Prosecutors have filed a murder charge against Timothy Anderson, 42, accused in the March 23 beating his mother, Mary Ann Anderson in the Sleepy Hollow Road home they shared. The 76-year-old woman died three days later even after doctors at Stamford Hospital removed part of her skull to relieve brain swelling and placed her on a ventilator.

After the Chief State Medical Examiner ruled Mary Ann Anderson’s death a homicide, Stamford Police Capt. Richard Conklin said police anticipated the charges would be upgrade. The autopsy “showed her death was attributable to the beating she took,” Conklin said April 1.

Since his arrest on the day of the attack, Timothy Anderson has been held in state custody in lieu of $500,000 bond set on charges of first-degree assault of an elderly person, first-degree unlawful restraint, third-degree assault and disorderly conduct.

Timothy Anderson was charged with murder during an appearance Tuesday in state Superior Court in Stamford, according to The Advocate.

Stamford Police have said that Timothy Anderson attacked his mother after one of his brothers momentarily left the family’s home. Upon hearing his mother screaming for help, the other son, John Anderson, 50, intervened and was injured in the process.

Mary Ann Anderson was a homemaker who with her late husband, raised their children in Darien. Following her husband’s death, she returned to her native Stamford where she was very involved with St. Maurice Church where she started a prayer shawl committee for the sick. She also was the church’s first female altar server and helped train all new altar servers. She was a faith formation teacher having taught the First Communion classes as well as teaching religious education for grades 2, 4 and 6.

Timothy Anderson’s bond remains at $500,000 and he’s scheduled to be arraigned on the charge on May 6, according to the Connecticut Judicial Branch website.

The Advocate story can be found here.

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Photo courtesy of Stamford Police: Timothy Anderson.