A 95-year-old woman has been charged with murder in the second degree for allegedly killing her 89-year-old roommate, according to a new criminal complaint.
Police responded to calls of an assault at the Seagate Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sunday night.
A criminal complaint released Wednesday by the Criminal Court of the City of New York said Nina Kravtsov was found in her room at 9:55 p.m. Sunday “nonresponsive” and “covered in blood,” with gash marks on her face and head. Kravtsov was pronounced dead at a local hospital, according to authorities.
According to the complaint, a witness reported seeing Kravtsov’s roommate, Galina Smirnova, washing her hands in the room’s sink with blood on her legs and hospital gown Sunday night.
Kravtsov was seen in the