Crime & Safety

Woman Kills Mother At Warminster Senior Living Facility: Police

A woman has been charged with killing her mother inside her apartment at a Warminster senior living facility, police said.

A woman has been charged with killing her mother at a Warminster senior living facility, police said. Sung Hee Kim, 63, of South Korea, is facing charges of criminal homicide after assaulting her mother with "several objects," resulting in her death, according to Warminster Township Police.

The 90-year-old victim was found early Saturday at Charter Arms Apartments. Officers were called there just before 7 a.m. Saturday for a report of an assault.

When they arrived, authorities said they found the victim unconscious and Kim inside the home. The Central Bucks County Medic Unit responded but determined the victim was dead due to head trauma.

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According to NBC10, Kim admitted the attack to the 911 dispatcher. “I killed a woman. I killed my mother," Kim allegedly told the dispatcher.

A neighbor told told police she was outside around 6 a.m. and heard the sounds of slapping, crying and yelling coming from inside the apartment where Kim was with her mother, the NBC10 report said.

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Kim has been arraigned and is being held at Bucks County prison without bail.

Image of Kim via Warminster Twp PD

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