PHOTOS: Meet the 10 year old boy who beat a 90 year old woman to death

How do you, at just 10 years old, beat someone
until they die? At 10? That’s exactly what Tristen
Kurilla from Pennsylvania, (pictured above) did.
He beat a 90 year old woman until she died.
He is currently being held in the adult jail as he
awaits trial. He is the youngest person ever to
face a murder charge in Pennsylvania.
Here’s what he did. Tristen was visiting his
grandfather in October this year. According to
what he later told police, he entered the room of
90 year old Helen Novak who lived with his
grand dad on Oct 11 to ask her a question. He
said Helen screamed at him and told him to leave
her room. He said he lost his temper, picked the
woman’s wooden cane and attacked the woman
who sitting in her bed.

Police say Tristen beat her with the cane, hooked
it around her neck and pushed it into her throat
for a few seconds then punched her five times in
the throat and several times in the stomach.
There was no one else at the time of the incident
to help Helen.
When the boy’s granddad returned shortly and
found Helen unresponsive, he called medics and
the police. Tristen told police he’d only meant to
hurt her, not kill her.
He is currently in adult jail though his lawyers
are trying to get the courts to transfer the case to
juvenile court and have Tristen moved to a youth
detainment facility because of his age. That has
not happened yet.
His parents are said to be devastated and claimed
Tristen was such a good and kind boy who
wouldn’t a hurt a fly. Yeah, he skipped the fly
and killed someone instead.
Tristen has since met with a psychiatrist and will
next meet with the defense’s mental health
expert.