Police tape marks off a home where the bodies of an elderly couple were found Monday, April 6, 2015, in Elmwood Park, N.J. Picture: Tony Kurdzuk Source: AP
A 100-year-old man has become one of the oldest people ever to commit homicide after he killed his wife with an axe as she slept in their home, then killed himself in the bathroom with a knife, it is alleged.
But it's still not clear what sparked the murder-suicide late Sunday in Elmwood Park, New Jersey.
Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli tweeted on Monday there was a "history of domestic issues" between Michael Juskin and his 88-year-old wife, Rosalia, but he said a motive for the attack remains under investigation.
A member of Mr Juskin's family told The Record he suffered from dementia.
"Sometimes he was lucid and sometimes he wasn't," the family member said, who wished to remain anonymous.
Police officers found the couple in their home after a relative — who was not in the home — called authorities. The deaths were made public Monday.
Authorities do not believe anyone else was in the home when the attack occurred.
Neighbours told The Record newspaper that they often saw the couple out and about — Michael Juskin walking a dog and his wife tending to her garden — but said they kept to themselves.
Barbara Szczecina, 65, who lives down the block, said she saw Rosalia sitting on her front porch around 10am on Saturday.
"She used to be in her garden all the time," Szczecina said. "They were always together, putzing around outside."
Family members who were at the home on Monday declined to comment on the deaths.
Authorities arrive at a home where the bodies of the elderly couple were found. Picture: Tariq Zehawi Source: AP
In 2009, a 98-year-old Massachusetts woman strangled her roommate at their nursing home but was deemed incompetent to stand trial last year at the age of 102.
The woman, who suffers from dementia, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
In 1990 a 95-year-old man, Oliver Barr, used a therapy bar to bludgeon an 88-year-old woman to death after he became suspicious she was poisoning 15 senior citizens who lived in his building.
He became the oldest person to be charged with homicide in New York City.
People gather across the street from the home where the bodies were found. Picture: Tariq Zehawi Source: AP
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