Son Charged in His Mother's Killing

Second-degree murder is the charge on the arrest affidavit. What that paperwork says he told detectives is an allegation. It is not a verdict.

Shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday, Miami-Dade deputies were called to a house in the 200 block of Northwest 100th Terrace, near Miami Shores, on a report of a burglary. Gregory Magloire was not there when they arrived. He rode up on a bicycle and pointed them to a window on the south side of the house. The window was boarded up and did not look disturbed. He gave them a key, said he did not want to go inside, and said his room had been ransacked even though he had not been in the house.

Inside, deputies found his mother, Josephine Louise Magloire, 68, with injuries to her head and face. There was blood on and near her body, and broken glass with blood nearby. Medics pronounced her dead at the scene.

The arrest affidavit says that after deputies read him his rights, Magloire said he had struck her in the head repeatedly with blunt objects, and that the statement was recorded on video and audio. Detectives believe she was killed the night before the burglary call. He was arrested Thursday on a second-degree murder charge. As of Friday he was still being held without bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. The affidavit does not state a motive. Deputies also wrote that he appeared to be under the influence of alcohol and drugs. No test results are in the paperwork.

All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.