Police have charged a Reserve Township woman with delivering the bone-breaking punch that caused her 73-year-old mother’s death — just days after the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the mother’s death a homicide.
Krystal Slepski, 43, punched Patricia Kachinko in the chest during a June 2 argument at Kachinko’s Troy Hill home, according to a criminal complaint. Kachinko was a thin woman who suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and relied on an oxygen tank to breathe.
First responders transported Kachinko, who suffered from labored breathing after the attack, to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh for evaluation…