95-Year-Old Arrested For Murder In Fatal NYC Nursing Home Attack: Police

BROOKLYN, NY — A 95-year-old woman is facing murder charges after allegedly bludgeoning a fellow Brooklyn nursing home resident to death with a metal piece from a wheelchair.

Galina Smirnova was arrested Tuesday afternoon for allegedly striking 89-year-old Nina Kravtsov in the head multiple times during a dispute Sunday night at the Seagate Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Coney Island, police said.

Kravtsov, a Holocaust survivor from Ukraine, according to the New York Post, was rushed to NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn, where she was later pronounced dead, police said.

Smirnova, believed to be a fellow resident of the nursing home, has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, officials said.

Officials have not yet disclosed what led to the fatal altercation or the nature of the relationship between the two women.

The exact cause of death is still being determined, and the investigation remains ongoing, police said.