A 21-year-old Ellicott City man pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering his father.
“Yun Chen received 14 stab and six cutting wounds to various points of his body,” prosecutor David Lank said, reading from an agreed-upon statement of facts in the case, in Howard County Circuit Court.
Jason Chen, who admitted to second-degree murder for killing his father, Yun Sen Chen, 46, at the family?s home the day after Christmas in 2005, faces up to 30 years in prison.
Jason Chen told police he had been defending his mother from his father as the older Chen tried to assault her, according to police charging documents.
But Lank told Judge Louis Becker that Chen?s mother, Lili Chen, who initially agreed with her son?s version of the events, changed her story and said her husband did not assault her.
In her second statement to police, Lili Chen told investigators that her son attacked her husband after the two men got in an argument, and her son also threatened her with a knife.
She said Jason Chen slashed her in the face, and she pleaded with her son for her life.
Lili Chen also sought to have her son?s bail revoked after the incident.
“She did this because she still felt threatened … and did not want him in her home anymore,” Lank said.
Yun Sen Chen?s death was one of four homicides in Howard County last year.
Becker is scheduled to sentence Jason Chen on Dec. 8.
