ORANGE, Conn. (AP) A 22-year-old man has been arraigned on a murder charge in the killing of his mother in Orange.

Timothy Granata appeared Friday in Derby Superior Court. Bail was kept at $2 million.

Police Chief Robert Gagne said Timothy Granata was arrested Thursday afternoon after the body of 58-year-old Claudia Granata was found at her home. The chief said police were called to the home on Wild Rose Drive at around 2:15 p.m. and found the young man nearby.

The New Haven Register reports his attorney, Charles Tiernan III, told the judge Granata has a psychiatric history and asked that Granata be transferred to a psychiatric facility. The newspaper says Granata, a junior at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, wept and appeared near collapse a few times as he was arraigned.