(Beaver,Pa.) The preliminary hearing for a man who is accused of killing his father because he lost a substantial amount of money in a scam occurred in Beaver County Court on Thursday afternoon Michael Miklaucic who is from Massachusetts learned yesterday that he will stand trial in the strangulation death of his 83-year-old father John Miklaucic, in his father’s New Sewickley home, back in March of this year.

The younger Miklaucic traveled from his home in Massachusetts to help his dad after learned about the scam. The pair were at the New Sewickley Police Department just days before the elder Miklaucic’s death to report the scam. Miklaucic said to investigators after his arrest that he did it to protect his dad from the humiliation that he might face for getting scammed.

He facing charges of criminal homicide and strangulation.