Overview

• Prosecutors charged 95-year-old Galina S. with murder in the death of her roommate, Nina Kravtsov, 89, at Seagate Rehabilitation and Nursing Center on Coney Island.
• Investigators cite bloody wheelchair footrests and witness reports of a heated dispute around 10 p.m., with one footrest recovered outside a window.
• A staff member found Kravtsov with a bleeding head wound; she was taken to a hospital and died the next morning.
• The defendant appeared confused at arraignment and was ordered detained at Bellevue Hospital Jail; police have not identified a motive.
• Kravtsov, a Holocaust survivor originally from Ukraine, is being mourned by family, as local reports say authorities also opened an inquiry into the facility’s operators after prior concerns over staffing and training.