ST. LOUIS, MO – October 16, 2026 (STL.News) A 68-year-old St. Louis man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a violent home invasion in which he attacked a 74-year-old woman inside her apartment, choking, striking, and biting her before her adult son intervened and restrained the attacker until police arrived.

Maurice Randolph received the sentence Thursday, October 15, 2026, following his conviction for first-degree assault of a special victim and first-degree burglary, according to the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office.

The attack occurred October 8, 2023, in the 3000 block of North 23rd Street in the city’s St. Louis Place neighborhood.