A 95-year-old woman living at a Brooklyn care facility 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 Coney Island Hospital to undergo a psychiatric evaluation and it was unclear if she was going to be charged criminally due to reportedly suffering from dementia.
However, cops said Tuesday that Smirnova had been officially booked on charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon for the killing of 89-year-old Nina Kravtsov.
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 Sun