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Old Wrestler Body Slams Roomate to Death

Grizzled Minnesota wrestling dude Verne Gagne, 82, is under police investigation after body-slamming nursing home roommate Helmut R. Gutmann, 97, to the floor on January 26th. Gutmann cracked a hip, bashed his noggin, and died 3 weeks later. Ironically the two men had been in a public lobby of the Friendship Village memory loss unit when the incident happened. Gagne suffered from Alzheimer’s and Gutmann had dementia, so the cause of the fight is unknown.

Full article at TwinCities – via Asylum.