Woman Admits Murdering Mother, 90, In Warminster

WARMINSTER, PA — A woman from South Korea will serve up to 25 years in prison after admitting to murdering her 90-year-old mother in Warminster.

Sun Hee Kim, 65, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder as part of a negotiated plea, the Bucks County District Attorney's office announced Monday. She admitted to beating to death Chung Sook Chang, who she was visiting at her Warminster apartment.

Judge C. Theodore Fritsch accepted the guilty plea and sentenced Kim to 10-25 years in prison.

Chang was found dead in her apartment, on Potter Street, on April 28 after Kim called 911 and, according to prosecutors, told the dispatcher, "I killed a woman. I killed my mother."

Warminster Township Police officers arrived to find Kim covered in blood, blood spatters on the walls and furniture and several broken items near Chang's body, including a picture frame and a ceramic or porcelain plate.

Neighbors told police they heard slapping, crying and yelling coming from the apartment less than an hour before Kim called 911. Investigations and a medical exam revealed that Chang had been attacked from behind and beaten and stabbed in the head, neck and face with pieces of the picture frame and plate, prosecutors say.

Kim told police, through a New Jersey state trooper acting as an interpreter, that she had argued with her mother and that the argument escalated. Kim, police learned, was visiting her mother from South Korea and planned to fly home the day after the killing.

According to prosecutors, Kim will be deported upon her parole from state prison.