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Inset: Dempsey Fritchey (Delaware State Police). Background: Hyatt House located connected Five Points Square successful Lewes, Delaware (Google Maps).
Hotel unit astatine a Delaware Hyatt were moving 1 evening erstwhile a antheral approached and told them helium had killed his grandmother successful 1 of the rooms, authorities say.
Dempsey Fritchey, 30, was indicted by a Sussex County expansive assemblage for the first-degree murder of 72-year-old Elizabeth Fritchey, the Delaware State Police announced connected Friday.
The suspect is presently successful the custody of the Delaware Department of Correction.
On Jan. 29, astatine astir 5:45 p.m., troopers arrived astatine the Hyatt House connected Five Points Square successful Lewes, wherever Dempsey Fritchey is listed arsenic hailing from. The metropolis is located close connected the Delaware Bay.
Authorities accidental "a impermanent told edifice unit that helium had killed his grandma successful 1 of the edifice rooms." Troopers spoke with the fishy adjacent the lobby of the hotel, and helium allegedly reiterated "that helium whitethorn person killed his grandmother."
The antheral was arrested and originally charged with felony assault.
Officers went to the country and recovered Elizabeth Fritchey "unconscious and suffering from injuries to her look and head." They gave her aesculapian attention, arsenic did EMS earlier they took her to a adjacent infirmary with "life-threatening injuries."
She died connected Feb. 10 "from the injuries she received during the assault."
According to Delaware State Police, detectives learned that "while staying unneurotic successful the edifice room, [Dempsey] Fritchey, for chartless reasons, abruptly assaulted his grandma with his hands and feet, and afterwards went to the lobby and told edifice unit astir the incident."
It is unclear erstwhile the suspect is owed to look successful court.
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