Jailed After Beating His Grandmother Nearly To Death With Hammer

Mesa, Arizona- Terry Seely, a 20-year-old Arizona man was jailed Saturday after he allegedly beat his grandmother with a hammer, burglarized her home and stole her car.

According to the Mesa Police Department, Seely reportedly went to his grandparent’s residence with the intention of apologizing for his recent bad behavior.He spoke to his grandfather, who was leaving to go to a doctor’s appointment and told him that he needed to leave. The two men then left the residence at the same time.

Investigators say Seely did not leave entirely, but instead circled around the block and returned to his grandparent’s home. He then entered the residence through a back door, found a hammer and used it to repeatedly strike his grandmother in the head.

Investigators say Seely stole a jewelry box, speakers, credit cards, an iPad, and other valuable items from his grandparent’s home before fleeing in his grandmother’s car, leaving her to die.Seely’s grandfather came home at about 1:00 p.m. to find his wife’s car missing. When entered to the home to find it burglarized. When then found his wife in a bedroom, severely injured but still alive. She was rushed to a local hospital where she is listed in critical condition.

Doctors say the elderly woman suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain, which required emergency surgery.

Seely was booked into jail and charged with attempted second-degree murder, first-degree trafficking stolen property, two counts of aggravated assault, second-degree burglary, theft of a means of transportation, two counts of drug possession, and one count of possessing drug paraphernalia.