'Indentation in the wall': Woman pushed her 63-year-old mother down a staircase to her death during argument, cops say

A pistillate is accused of shoving her mother during an statement astatine the older woman's Pennsylvania home, causing her to autumn down a staircase to her death.

Elissa Blair Waltman, 34, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and elemental battle successful the decease of her mother, 63-year-old Eileen Flugrath. The suspect is being held astatine the Lancaster County Prison without bail.

On the greeting of April 5, Flugrath was astatine her location connected the 100 artifact of Pickwick Place successful Millersville, Pennsylvania, a borough astir 80 miles westbound of Philadelphia. According to the Millersville Borough Police Department, Waltman was besides there, though she lived successful a abstracted location successful the country astir 4 miles away.

Police said that astatine astir 10:30 a.m., they were called to the mother's location and entered "to find Flugrath injured and bleeding astatine the bottommost of the staircase." They besides "found an indentation successful the partition astatine the apical of the stairs that an eyewitness said was not determination before."

Investigators spoke with Waltman, who reportedly said that she and her parent had been arguing "when Flugrath backed up and fell down the stairs connected her own." The suspect denied that she touched her parent during the argument, claiming she lone yelled astatine her.

As the probe continued, however, she allegedly conceded to "having pushed" her mother, "causing her to autumn into the partition and past down the staircase." A nonmigratory connected the building's bottommost level told authorities "they heard a crash" and past recovered Flugrath "face-down astatine the basal of the stairs."

Waltman was seemingly astatine the apical of the steps "cursing and instantly claimed that she ne'er touched Flugrath," constabulary said the witnesser told them.

Flugrath was taken to an country hospital, wherever she died 4 days later.

Waltman was aboriginal arrested, with authorities accusing her of "pushing her 63-year-old parent into a wall, causing her to autumn down a formation of stairs to her death." The suspect was arraigned connected Thursday, erstwhile her bail was denied.

She is scheduled to instrumentality to tribunal for a preliminary proceeding connected June 23.