A 22-year-old New Jersey woman has been accused of violently beating another woman to death with a broom inside an Atlantic City home over the weekend, officials said.

Ceani Barnes is facing a count of first-degree aggravated manslaughter in connection with the death of 34-year-old Christina Burdette, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement Thursday. She was found “unresponsive” during a welfare check at a residence along Sheridan Avenue on Saturday morning and pronounced dead just after 10 a.m.

The Southern Regional Medical Examiner’s Office has since ruled Burdette’s death a homicide . The cause, meanwhile, was listed as “complications of multiple blunt force trauma injuries with chronic abuse.”

According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by NJ Advance M

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