Aiken Standard in Aiken, South Carolina

Lowcountry man charged in mother’s knife murder

Jack Northrop III then 35 is charged with murder for allegedly attacking his mother Patsy Herndon 56 with a knife during a money dispute and causing her head injury that led to death authorities say Herndon was found at her home after neighbors reported she did not answer doors and phone calls The arrest affidavit states the throat slashing and fall contributed to her death and Northrop lived two doors down from her mother.