A 68-year-old man was arrested this morning accused of having killed a woman in a nursing home in Vitoria. Around four in the morning, that a resident had been attacked by another user of the center. The police who responded to the call verified that the victim, a 94-year-old woman, suffered serious injuries to her face apparently caused by a sharp object, the Security Department of the Basque Government reported in a statement. The woman was taken by ambulance to the Txagorritxu hospital, where she finally died.
The Ertzaintza agents launched a search for the alleged murderer both within the residence facilities and throughout the rest of the city in case he had fled. The police found him hiding in a bathroom in a locker room of the residence. This is a 68-year-old man who, according to sources in the case cited by Efe, has some psychiatric problem. He has been arrested and is accused of murder.
The Ertzaintza is investigating these events as a homicide, as stated this morning by the Security Councilor, Bingen Zupiria, who has described this event as “terrible” and has regretted the death of the woman. “We are talking about an elderly person who has lived for many years and who has had his life cut short by the attack of a person who lived in the same residence,” he added in statements to journalists in the corridors of the Basque Parliament.
The daughter of a woman resident in the center has assured that her mother “had to be reassured” because she was “very affected” by what happened. She told journalists that employees of the senior center took them to a room while the police carried out searches at the facilities. “They have entered the rooms, they have looked in the closets, the bathroom… We don’t know more,” he commented.
The IMQ-Igurco residence, where the events occurred, has assured in a statement that there had been no previous incident between the woman murdered last morning and her alleged murderer, and has indicated that it is providing maximum collaboration in the police investigations. and judicial to clarify what happened. The senior center, which is now operating “normally,” has regretted this “unfortunate event” and has shown its “deep dismay and sadness.”
