Bristol County District Attorney Sam Sutter pledged to review “all possible angles” into the homicide of 100-year-old Elizabeth Barrow and said the region’s senior citizens should continue to take “every reasonable precaution to protect themselves.”
Barrow was found dead in her bed in the Brandon Woods Nursing Home in Dartmouth on Sept. 24. The death was ruled a homicide Wednesday by the state medical examiner’s office. The announcement of the homicide comes on the heels of Monday’s fatal shooting of 67-year-old Elizabeth Fontaine, of Attleboro.
Police have made an arrest in Fontaine’s death, but Sutter Thursday said investigators are investigating Barrow’s death, which the medical examiner ruled was due to strangulation.
Sutter declined to release any specific information regarding Barrow’s death, but said residents of the nursing home, and the county’s senior citizens in general, should not feel they are being targeted.
“I’m quite certain the nursing home is taking precautions based on what [...]

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