"A 95-year-old nursing home resident suffering from dementia has been arrested in Brooklyn. She has been charged with murder after authorities say she fatally attacked another elderly woman at the same facility during a late-night altercation. Police identified the accused as Galina Smirnova, who was taken into custody on Tuesday afternoon. Investigators allege she beat 89-year-old Holocaust survivor Nina Kravtsov with a piece of metal broken off from a wheelchair inside the Seagate Rehabilitation and Nursing Center on Coney Island."
"According to police, Kravtsov was found in her bed bleeding from a severe head wound. She was rushed to NYU Brooklyn Hospital. While initially she was listed in critical condition, eventually she passed away on Monday. Police initially hesitated to disclose whether Smirnova would face charges, given her age and dementia diagnosis. Following the incident, she was transported to Coney Island Hospital to get her physical and psychiatric evaluations done. However, officials confirmed Tuesday that she has now been charged with murder."
""I was devastated," the victim's daughter Lucy Flom told the New York Post. "My friends are saying they can't believe it because it only happens in movies." Flom emotionally described her mother who had sacrificed a lot for her family. She had endured a lot in life but had not let it turn her into a bitter person. Kravtsov was originally from Ukraine and had gone through unimaginable hardship from a young age."
A 95-year-old nursing home resident with dementia was arrested in Brooklyn and charged with murder after allegedly fatally attacking an 89-year-old fellow resident. The accused, identified as Galina Smirnova, allegedly used a detached metal part from a wheelchair to strike Nina Kravtsov multiple times in the head at the Seagate Rehabilitation and Nursing Center on Coney Island late Sunday. Kravtsov, a Holocaust survivor, was found bleeding and rushed to NYU Brooklyn Hospital and later died. Officials ordered physical and psychiatric evaluations and confirmed charges of murder following the incident.
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