Bucks man convicted of killing father with dumbbell

A Bucks County man was convicted Wednesday of third-degree murder for killing his 73-year-old father during a fistfight last year in their home in Bristol, prosecutors said.

Still, the verdict disappointed the county's trial chief, Robert James, who had sought to convince jurors during the three-day trial that Jazs Bronner, 45, deliberately attacked and killed his father with a 10-pound dumbbell. The reason Bronner killed his father, James said, was that he didn't want to move out of the house.

Bronner's public defender, Alicia Baatz, could not be reached for comment Wednesday night. She had conceded in the trial that Bronner and his father, Orlando, fought last March, and that the elder Bronner died as a result of his injuries.

But, Baatz argued, the son did not intentionally kill the father. He told police about the fight, she said, and stayed at the scene as officers responded.

James said Bronner faces six to 40 years in prison. His sentencing hearing was deferred at least a month.

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