Dementia patient, 95, accused of killing Holocaust survivor wheeled into court as disturbing details revealed

Fonte: New York Post

A 95-year-old dementia patient was charged Wednesday with bludgeoning an elderly Holocaust survivor to death inside a Brooklyn nursing home — as prosecutors revealed grisly new details of the shocking crime. Galina Smirnova, looking confused and frail in a wheelchair in court, was hit with murder and weapons charges and ordered held at the Bellevue Hospital jail ward as prosecutors described the bloody scene at the Seagate Rehabilitation and Nursing Center on Coney Island for the first time. Smirnova is accused of killing Nina Kravtsov, 89, with the pedal from her wheelchair Sunday night.