A 20-year-old man in Texas will spend two decades behind bars for killing his own mother, stabbing the 47-year-old woman multiple times before attempting to kill his father, who managed to pin his son down and call 911. Cameron County District Judge Juan A. Magallanes last week ordered Dallas Scott Gilbert to serve a sentence of 20 years in a state correctional facility for the 2023 slaying of Angela Watt Gilbert, court records show.

Gilbert, who was 18 at the time of the attack, reached a deal with prosecutors in which he agreed to plead guilty to one count of murder. In exchange for his plea, the State agreed to dismiss charges of attempted capital murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

As Law&Crime previously reported , Gilbert's attack on his parents took place at about

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