"A 95-year-old woman is accused of beating her roommate, a Holocaust survivor, to death at a Brooklyn, New York City, nursing home this week. Galina Smirnova, 95, was charged with second-degree murder and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon in the death of Nina Kravtsov, 89, according to the criminal complaint. She has pleaded not guilty. The two were roommates at Seagate Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Coney Island."
"On Sunday, nursing home personnel entered room 333 and observed Kravtsov "alive and asleep in her bed" and noted that "nothing in the room was in disarray," according to the complaint. An hour later at 9:55 p.m., a witness entered the room and found Kravtsov "in her bed, non-responsive, covered in blood, and with gash marks about her face and head," the complaint said."
Galina Smirnova, 95, faces second-degree murder and fourth-degree criminal possession charges after her 89-year-old roommate, Nina Kravtsov, was found fatally injured at Seagate Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Coney Island. Staff earlier observed Kravtsov asleep and the room orderly; about an hour later a witness found her non-responsive, covered in blood, with facial and head gash marks. Smirnova was seen washing blood from her hands with a bloody hospital gown and blood on her legs. A wheelchair foot pedal was removed and found bloodied on the floor. Kravtsov suffered facial, head and skull fractures and died of blunt force trauma. Kravtsov was a Ukrainian Holocaust survivor who worked as a nurse, raised a daughter, and moved to Brighton Beach in 1979; she had a stroke five years ago and entered the nursing home.
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