Two Charged In Dallas County Nursing Home Beating Death
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A prosecutor Monday has charged two women with capital murder for the death of an elderly woman in a nursing home.
The suspects worked at the home and are accused of beating the woman with brass knuckles.
81-year-old Willie Mae Ryan died Thursday after she was taken
off a ventilator at a Pine Bluff hospital.
Dallas County Prosecutor Jamie Pratt announced he has charged nursing assistants 17-year-old Shermika Rainey and 44-year-old Gayla Wilson in the beating.
Pratt said Ryan was beaten in her bed; police said one person held the woman down while the other administered the beating.
Rainey and Wilson are to make a court appearance Wednesday for
arraignment.
