Skip to content
News
Link copied to clipboard
Link copied to clipboard

Mother killed adult quadriplegic daughter, police say

Yelena Nezhikhovskaya, 63, was charged with murder in the death of her daughter, Yulia.

Yelena Nezhikhovskaya, 63, was charged on Nov. 16, 2019, with third-degree murder, drug delivery resulting in death, and related offenses in the Dec. 17, 2018, death of her 31-year-old daughter, Yulia Nezhikhovskaya, in their Bustleton apartment.
Yelena Nezhikhovskaya, 63, was charged on Nov. 16, 2019, with third-degree murder, drug delivery resulting in death, and related offenses in the Dec. 17, 2018, death of her 31-year-old daughter, Yulia Nezhikhovskaya, in their Bustleton apartment.Read morePhiladelphia Police Department

A 63-year-old woman was charged with killing her 32-year-old daughter last year in the city’s Bustleton section, police said.

Yelena Nezhikhovskaya of the 9600 block of Bustleton Avenue was arrested Saturday and charged with murder and related offenses in the death of Yulia Nezhikhovskaya.

Late in the afternoon of Dec. 17, medics responded to a report of a medical case at the Nezhikhovskaya home and pronounced Yulia, who was quadriplegic, dead. The cause of death was not explained in the police announcement Monday evening of the murder charge.