Prosecutor: Man stabbed his mom, smashed her head on pavement, hit her with truck in Marlboro attack

Prosecutor: Man stabbed his mom, smashed her head on pavement, hit her with truck in Marlboro attack

A Westboro man was ordered held without bail Friday in a gruesome attack in the parking lot of a hotel in Marlboro that left his elderly mother dead Thursday afternoon, officials said.

Daniel Uhlman, 53, was arraigned in Marlboro District Court on charges including armed assault to murder a person over 60, two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a person over 60 in the death of his mother, 82-year-old Nancy Uhlman, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Marlborough Chief of Police David Giorgi.

Officers responding to the Holiday Inn parking lot on Lakeside Avenue shortly after 12:30 p.m. found Uhlman dead in what Marlboro police deemed an “apparent homicide.”

During the arraignment, prosecutors alleged that Uhlman stabbed his mother at least 10 times with a butter knife and smashed her head on the pavement at least 20 times before running her over twice with a truck.

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Uhlman had been planning the attack for at least a week, according to prosecutors. His defense attorney said outside of court that Massachusetts’ mental health system had “failed” him.

One crime scene was in the hotel’s back parking lot, where police, cleanup crews, and the medical examiner were all investigating. The other crime scene was towards the front of the hotel, surrounding a pickup truck, where police spent hours taking pictures and gathering evidence.

The hotel manager told Boston 25 that the son and mother were not guests of the hotel and had nothing to do with the Holiday Inn.

Terry Barroso, who was visiting from New Hampshire, says she turned away from the hotel after seeing all of the homicide investigators outside.

“We drove up and we saw all these cars and we were gonna go check in and we saw the news vans and all of this stuff happening,” said Terry Barroso, who came from New Hampshire. “I mean we really thought Marlborough was a safe community so we’re pretty shocked by this.”

An investigation remains ongoing.

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