Convicted Murderer To Seek Reduced Sentence

{Charleston, West Virginia}...Thomas Mallo of Charleston will turn 18 in December and must begin serving a 40 year prison sentence in the 2009 murder of 80 year old Phyllis Jean Phares. Mallo was 14 when police say he fatally stabbed his neighbor. Mallo, who has been held at the Industrial Home for Youth in Salem since he pleaded guilty in 2010 to second-degree murder, plans to seek a reduced sentence, but Kanawha County assistant prosecutor Maryclaire Akers says she'll oppose any reduction in Mallo's sentence. Mallo also faces charges in Harrison County of attacking an officer and trying to escape from the Salem facility.