A 95-year-old woman was arrested and charged with murder after using part of a wheelchair to bludgeon a fellow resident at a Brooklyn, New York, senior housing facility to death, police said.

In addition to murder, Galina Smirnova was charged Tuesday with weapon possession, police said, for the death of 89-year-old Nina Kravtsov at the Seagate Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Coney Island on Sunday.

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Police sources said Kravtsov was killed after she got into an argument with Smirnova. The elderly victim was struck repeatedly over the head with a metal piece of the chair allegedly by Smirnova, who sources said may have dementia.

Medics arrived and took Kravtsov to Lutheran Hospital, where she later died.

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