92-year-old man placed plastic bag over wife’s face and pinched her nose before declaring she ‘needed to die’: Cops

A 92-year-old man in Kentucky was at a retirement community with his wife when he placed a plastic bag over her face and pinched her nose, authorities say.

Bert Morris has been charged with attempted murder relating to domestic violence and strangulation in the first degree, according to the Louisville Metro Police Department. He has been booked into the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections.

Shortly after midnight on Wednesday, police said officers responded to a call in the 6700 block of Overlook Drive “on a report of a domestic violence incident.” They had been called to StoryPoint Brownsboro retirement community, according to an arrest citation obtained by local ABC affiliate WHAS…

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