Home of Diane Madison, the mother of Cleveland serial killer, Michael Madison, was stabbed to death. Three children injured.

CLEVELAND (AP) — An 18-year-old has pleaded not guilty to fatally stabbing his grandmother and injuring three children in an attack at a Cleveland home.

A judge on Monday ordered that Jalen Plummer be held on a $2 million bond. Plummer pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder. Court records don’t indicate whether he has an attorney.

Police say he entered the bedrooms of his sleeping siblings and cousin and stabbed them early Saturday.

Authorities say his 10-year-old sister, 12-year-old brother and 10-year-old cousin were stabbed multiple times and taken to a hospital for treatment.

Cleveland media outlets say she is the mother of Michael Madison, a Cleveland man convicted of killing three women in 2013 and hiding their bodies in garbage bags.

Michael is currently on death row for killing three women, according to WKYC. </s> CLEVELAND, Ohio - 18-year-old Jaylen Latrell Plummer is scheduled to face a judge Monday in the death of Diane Madison.

Police say Plummer went into Madison's home on Chickasaw Ave. around 12:15 a.m. Saturday and started stabbing three children in their sleep.

The children, ages 10 and 12, are being treated at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital.

Police say officers found Plummer in the shower at the home.

Two of the children were able to run for help during the attack.

Madison is the mother of serial killer Michael Madison.

The FOX 8 I-Team confirms one of the children stabbed is Michael's child.

Madison was convicted of aggravated murder in the deaths of three women whose bodies were found near Madison’s East Cleveland apartment in July 2013. </s> A teen stabbed a serial killer’s mother to death then slashed three children, including the killer’s daughter, as they slept, police say.

Authorities say Jaylen Latrell Plummer, 18, killed Diane Madison, 62, and stabbed the two ten-year-old girls and a 12-year-old boy on Saturday in Cleveland, Ohio.

Madison is the mother of Michael Madison, now 41, who was sentenced to death in 2016 after he was convicted of killing three women and wrapping their bodies in garbage bags.

One of the victims injured was Michael Madison’s child, Fox News reported. Plummer is reportedly related to the victims. Authorities say he is Diane Madison’s grandson and two of his victims were his brothers. The children were taken to Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital.

Authorities say two of the children were able to run for help during the attack.

Plummer appeared in court on Monday with bandages wrapped around his hands and pleaded not guilty to murder.

Police say they found him in the shower at his home with cuts on his hands.They have not yet released a motive and he is being held on $2 million bond.

During Michael Madison’s trial, his lawyers said his mother abused him while he was a child. They accused her of forcing food down his throat before making him vomit, Cleveland.com reported.

Defense lawyers also claimed she beat him with an extension cord, scalded him with boiling water, and let one of her boyfriends beat him so badly he lost his hearing.

Michael Madison was sentenced to execution for the strangling deaths of Shirrellda Terry, 18, Shetisha Sheeley, 28, and Angela Deskins, 38.

As Madison was sentenced, Terry’s father, Van Terry, lunged at the convicted killer, leaping over a desk and incited chaos in the courtroom before he was subdued by authorities and bystanders. </s> Police in Ohio have arrested an 18-year-old man who they say stabbed to death his grandmother - who was the mother of a local serial killer - and injured three young relatives in a nighttime attack at the woman's home in Cleveland.

Cleveland police have identified the deceased victim as 62-year-old Diane Madison. She succumbed to her wounds at the scene on Saturday.

Diane Madison was the mother of Michael Madison, a convicted sex offender who was found guilty in 2016 of murdering three women and sentenced to death.

The murder suspect, 18-year-old Jalen Plummer, was arraigned early Monday morning on charges of aggravated murder and felonious assault, and had his bond set at $2million, reported Cleveland.com.

Plummer is accused of repeatedly stabbing his 12-year-old brother, 10-year-old sister and 10-year-old cousin, who were all taken to Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital for treatment.

One of the young victims is Michael Madison's child, reported Fox 8 Cleveland.

Police say Plummer entered the bedrooms of the sleeping children at the residence in the 19000 block of Chickasaw Avenue at around 12.15am on Saturday.and began stabbing them.

The two girls managed to flee and ask neighbors for help. Officers found the boy hiding inside the home.

Police were were called to the scene found the 18-year-old suspect covered in blood in the shower inside his grandmother's house. Plummer was then taken to a hospital to be treated for cuts to his hand.

Michael Madison - who registered as a sex offender in 2002 when he was sentenced to four years in prison for attempted rape - was apprehended at his mother's home in East Cleveland July 2013 after a two-hour standoff.

His arrest came after the decomposing bodies of Angela Deskins, 38, Shetisha Sheeley, 28, and 18-year-old Shirellda Terry were found wrapped in garbage bags secured with tape near his apartment.

Madison said at the time he admired local serial killer Anthony Sowell, known as the Cleveland Strangler, who remains on death row in Ohio for the murders of 11 women.

During his trial, Madison's defense lawyers told the jury his mother, Diane, abused him as a child. </s> CLEVELAND, Ohio — The man accused of fatally stabbing the mother of serial killer Michael Madison and the stabbing of three sleeping children will be jailed on $2 million bond.

Jalen Plummer, 18, is charged with aggravated murder in the Saturday stabbing death of his 62-year-old grandmother, Diane Madison. He is also charged with felonious assault for stabbing his 10-year-old sister, 12-year-old brother and 10-year-old cousin as they slept, according to police and court records.

Diane Madison was found dead inside their home on Chicasaw Avenue near East 200th Street in the city’s North Shore-Collinwood neighborhood.

Cleveland Municipal Judge Lauren Moore set Plummer’s bond during his first court appearance on Monday.

The stabbings happened about 12:15 a.m. Saturday, police said. The three children ran from the home to a neighbor’s house. A neighbor called 911.

They were all taken to University Hospital’s Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital.

A 10-year-old girl and her 12-year-old cousin required surgery, court records say. All three children are still hospitalized, according to court records.

Police found Plummer covered in blood in a shower inside the home, court records say. He was treated at MetroHealth for injuries to his fingers and palms, according to police.

During Michael Madison’s trial, defense attorneys said that Diane Madison abused her son throughout his childhood. His attorneys said she stuffed food down his throat and forced him to vomit, she beat him with an extension cord and scalded him with hot water. One of her boyfriends beat him so bad that the boy lost hearing in one ear.

Michael Madison was sentenced to death in 2016 for strangling deaths of 18-year-old Shirrellda Terry, 28-year-old Shetisha Sheeley and 38-year-old Angela Deskins between October 2012 and July 2013.

Prosecutors said he was inspired by East Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell to keep his victim’s bodies stashed nearby.

Madison is in Chillicothe Correctional Institution while awaiting a decision by the Ohio Supreme Court for his mandatory appeal for all death-penalty convictions.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in February ordered a moratorium on executions until a new method can be developed and deemed constitutional by courts.

To comment on this story, go to the cleveland.com crime and courts comments section. </s> A man has been accused of killing a Cleveland woman and injuring three children in a knife attack.

The suspect, 18-year-old Jaylen Latrell Plummer, allegedly entered the home of 62-year-old Diane Madison, mother of infamous Cleveland serial killer Michael Madison, and fatally stabbed her while she was sleeping, WKYC3 reported.

After allegedly killing the 62-year-old, Plummer made his way through the house and found three sleeping children, a 12-year-old boy and two 10-year-old girls, and reportedly stabbed them multiple times.

Authorities say the boy hid in the house while the two girls managed to escape and get help from a neighbour to call the police. Plummer remained inside the house where police found him with cuts on his hands. He was then arrested.

The children were taken to hospital and their condition is currently unknown.

Neighbours spoke to WKYC3 about the incident and Diane’s personality. One neighbour named Timothy Galasky said Diane was “very quiet, peaceful lady, kept to herself,” adding, the situation was “sad.”

“It just makes you wonder what he was thinking what was the motive and what was his mindset and why,” said Galasky.

Diane’s son, Michael, was convicted in 2013 for the murders of three women. He’s currently on death row.

The stabbing is still under investigation. </s> The mother of a serial killer behind the slayings of three women in Ohio was fatally stabbed early Saturday morning in an attack at her home in Cleveland that also injured three children, according to officials.

The Cleveland Police Department said the incident happened around 12:15 a.m. at a home on Cleveland's east side.

The suspect, identified as 18-year-old Jaylen Latrell Plummer, alleged entered the home and starting stabbing Diane Madison, 62, and three other children -- two 10-year-old's and a 12-year-old, as they were sleeping in their bedrooms, according to police.

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Two of the children were able to get out of the house and run to a neighbor’s house, where they called the police, FOX8 reported.

Police said that after stabbing the children, Plummer got in the shower where he was discovered and arrested by arriving officers. The 18-year-old had to take to the hospital for treatment for multiple cuts to his hands.

Madison was discovered dead at the scene and had sustained multiple stab wounds. She is the mother of notorious serial killer Michael Madison, according to FOX8.

Michael Madison was sentenced to death in 2016 after being convicted of killing three women and wrapping their bodies in garbage bags.

The bodies of 38-year-old Angela Deskins, 28-year-old Shetisha Sheeley, and 18-year-old Shirellda Terry were found in July 2013 near the East Cleveland apartment building where Madison lived. Madison told police he strangled two of them but couldn't remember killing the third.

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty had described Madison as a trophy keeper who was inspired by the earlier case of Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell, who was convicted in the deaths of 11 women.

Madison's attorney never contested his guilt at trial. The defense instead had focused on saving his life by presenting evidence that Madison suffered lasting psychological damage from abuse as a youngster.

One of the children stabbed in Saturday's early-morning rampage is Michael's child, FOX8 reported.

All three of the children were taken to a children's hospital and were expected to survive their injuries, WOIO reported.

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Plummer is the grandson of Diane Madison, and the brother of two of the children who were stabbed in the attack, according to FOX8.

Officials have not said what may have motivated the stabbing spree. In a court appearance on Monday, Plummer entered a not guilty plea and a judge ordered he be held on a $2 million bond, FOX8 reported. He is scheduled to appear in court again on July 8.

Fox News' Cristina Corbin and The Associated Press contributed to this report. </s> CLEVELAND - A woman was found dead and three children injured early Saturday morning after a man entered their home and stabbed them, Cleveland police said.

The suspect, 18-year-old Jaylen Latrell Plummer, entered the home where Diane Madison, 62, and three children -- two 10-year- olds and a 12-year-old -- slept and began stabbing them in their bedrooms, police said.

Madison is the mother of serial killer Michael Madison, according to WJW, based on confirmation from his former attorney.

Michael Madison was sentenced to death in 2016, after being convicted of killing three women and wrapping their bodies in garbage bags.

Diane Madison was pronounced dead at the scene Saturday. Two of the children were able to run to a neighbor's home and call for help, police said. Officers found the third child hiding in the house. The three young victims were taken to a children's hospital.

Police said they found and arrested Plummer in the home's shower. He had wounds on his hands and fingers and also had to be treated at a hospital.

WOIO reported that Michael Madison had barricaded himself inside his mother's home -- the house where Saturday's stabbings took place -- before his arrest in 2013. </s> An 18-year-old man fatally stabbed Diane Madison, 62, and wounded three children in Madison’s home shortly after midnight in Cleveland, according to NBC4. Madison is the mother of 35-year-old Michael Madison, a serial killer now on death row for the murder of three women. He was arrested at his mother’s home in 2013. In Sunday’s incident, the 18-year-old allegedly stabbed Madison in her bedroom—then found two 10-year-old girls and a 12-year-old boy sleeping in the house and stabbed them multiple times. The two girls fled the house and asked neighbors for help. The boy was found hiding in the home. The children are expected to survive. The suspect, whose name was not released, was arrested at the scene.
Diane Madison, the mother of American serial killer Michael Madison, is stabbed to death in her home. Three children are also injured. Her grandson Jalen Plummer is arrested and charged with aggravated murder and felonious assault.