'How Do You Sleep At Night': Murder Victim's Mother Shouts At Attorneys Following Plea Deal

RIVER ROUGE (WWJ) - The mother of a murder victim is not happy her son's accused killer has taken a plea deal in a case that stretched from River Rouge to Ypsilanti.

Wesley Brown, 38, appeared in Wayne County Circuit Court on Wednesday, where the judge accepted his guilty plea to second-degree murder in the death of Michael Stratford. Under the deal, charges of open murder, and disinterment and mutilation of a body were dropped.

Following the hearing, Stratford's mother Carrie Bommarito confronted Brown's attorneys in a courtroom hallway.

"I don't know how you sleep at night, I don't," Bommarito shouted at the attorneys, who continued walking away. "If it was your son, Kym Worthy's son... I guarantee you it would have been natural life. I guarantee you it would have been a lot stricter that what I got. He was just a hard-working young kid, a single father. He deserved better."

According to investigators, Stratford was shot after a fight at Brown's home on Brian Street in Taylor. His body was then dumped in a field in Ypsilanti and set on fire.

Stratford's mother expected Brown to get life in prison, but she says she was lied to because "I'm a nobody and my son was a nobody and his 4-year-old daughter is a nobody." Under the plea deal, Brown faces a sentence of 25 to 50 years in prison.

Bommarito said Stratford had devoted his life to raising his daughter, who now has to grow up without ever knowing her father.

"The judge gave the baby to him and he raised her by himself. She just turned four and his two favorite things in his life were his baby and his motorcycle," Bommarito told WWJ's Mike Campbell.

Brown is due back in court for sentencing on November 30.

Brown's 41-year-old brother, Adam, has also pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact. With his deal, charges of disinterment and mutilation of a dead body were dismissed.