GRANTVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia sheriff says murder charges have been added against four suspects accused of beating and burning an 83-year-old woman at her home during an attempted robbery.
WTVM-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2bVgXcW ) Meriwhether County Sheriff Chuck Smith said charges in the case were upgraded after Dorothy Dow died Saturday at an Atlanta hospital, weeks after being attacked at her Grantville home Aug. 4.
Authorities say Dow was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire when five people demanded money from her and she told them she didn't have any.
Five suspects have been arrested. The sheriff says malice murder and felony murder charges have been added against four of them - Justin Pierce Grady, Cortavious Deshun Heard, Mina Christine Ellery and Angel Latrice Harmon.
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Information from: WTVM-TV, http://www.wtvm.com/
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