An elderly inmate charged with murdering his stepson died in hospital care Sunday — weeks after falling ill while behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center.

William Howell, 89, died at University of New Mexico Hospital, where he had been hospitalized with pneumonia, according to a news release from MDC spokesperson Candace Hopkins.

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