Man, 21, accused of shooting stepfather dead and stabbing his mother after row over borrowed car

The mother of a man charged with shooting and killing his stepfather before turning on her with a knife has said her son 'deserves the death penalty'. Jennifer Cloninger said it would be 'hard to forgive' her 21-year-old son Matthew Safrit, who attacked her and her husband Nathan Cloninger near Shelby, North Carolina, U.S., on Friday. Mrs Cloninger told U.S. news channel WSOCTV that Safrit shot his stepfather 'several times' after an argument over a borrowed car, before attacking him with a knife outside Safrit's girlfriend's house in Shelby. When Safrit's mother tried to hold her son back he stabbed her in the arm and 'pistol whipped' her, she said.

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