NEW YORK -- The violent death at a New York nursing home of an 89-year-old holocaust survivor and great-grandmother, allegedly at the hands of her 95-year-old roommate, has left her family broken.

Police said they found 89-year-old Nina Kravtsov, who was born in Ukraine and was a Holocaust survivor, with head injuries in her room.

"The way she died is like in a Stephen King horror movie. This doesn't happen in real life," said the attorney for the victim's family, Randy Zelin.

Kravtsov was rushed to the hospital, where she later died of blunt force trauma, the medical examiner said.

The alleged murder weapon was a leg rest from 95-year-old Galina Smirnova's wheelchair that was found discarded outside of the building.

"She was asleep sometime around 9:00. And by 10:00, she was beaten

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