"A 95-year-old woman living at a Coney Island nursing home has been charged with murder, police said, after she allegedly beat a fellow senior resident to death over the weekend. According to sources familiar with the investigation, the nearly century-old Galina Smirnova was initially taken to NYC Health+Hospitals/South Brooklyn to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, and it was initially unclear if she was going to be charged criminally due to reportedly suffering from dementia."
"Police sources report that Kravtsov was found lying in a bed inside the Seagate Rehab Nursing Home located at 3015 West 29th St. in Coney Island just before 10:30 p.m. on Sunday. She had suffered head trauma. Cops say Smirnova had allegedly become enraged and used a metal object taken from a wheelchair and beat Kravtsov with it. EMS rushed the victim to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where she was pronounced dead during the early hours of Monday."
Galina Smirnova, 95, was taken to NYC Health+Hospitals/South Brooklyn for a psychiatric evaluation and was later booked on charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon for the killing of 89-year-old Nina Kravtsov. Kravtsov was found with head trauma lying in a bed at Seagate Rehab Nursing Home at 3015 West 29th St. in Coney Island just before 10:30 p.m. on Sunday. Smirnova allegedly used a metal object taken from a wheelchair to beat Kravtsov. EMS transported Kravtsov to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where she was pronounced dead early Monday. Initial uncertainty existed about charging because of reported dementia. Kravtsov was a Holocaust survivor; her daughter said friends cannot believe it.
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