An 82-year-old man has been charged with beating to death his 82-year-old wife and then setting fire to their home in Stevensville, according to State Police.
Charged in a warrant with first-degree murder, arson and assault : Thomas Scherer of Oxbow Drive in Stevensville.
The victim was identified as Magda Sherer, found dead Thursday in a chair in the master bedroom of the family’s one-story home, after the Centreville Barracks got a call from a neighbor reporting a possible assault and house fire.
“She appeared to have blunt force trauma injuries to the bank of her head,” State Police reported.
When troopers and fire department personnel arrived they found the house ablaze.
Emergency personnel entered the home, found Scherer, carried her outside and tried to resuscitate her. She was pronounced dead in her yard.
“The preliminary investigation indicates that two of the four residents were home during the time of the incident,” says the official report.
Officers said that when they arrived on the scene, “Thomas Scherer was standing outside of the burning home.”
He was taken to Easton Memorial Hospital “for precautionary reasons” and kept under guard. State police said the charges would be served on Scherer after his release from the hospital.
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