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Incident at B.C. care facility leaves 85-year-old dead, 95-year-old in custody
VERNON, B.C. – A 95-year-old man is in custody as homicide investigators attempt to figure out what killed an 85-year-old man at a care facility in B.C.’s Interior.
The RCMP’s Gord Molendyk says police received a report of an assault at the Vernon Jubilee Hospital Residential Care Facility at about 11 p.m. on Sunday.
Molendyk says an 85-year-old man died of his injuries.
The victim’s 95-year-old roommate was taken into custody as police investigate what happened.
The RCMP say they are working with the Interior Health Authority.
(CHNL)
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