A woman in Bronx, New York has been arrested for the
murder and robbery of an 89-year-old Nazi concentration camp survivor. A man is still at large for his involvement in the crime.
According to the Manhattan district attorney's office, Angela Murray, 30, has been charged with one count of
second degree murder and three counts of
robbery for allegedly murdering and robbing Guido Felix Brinkmann.
Brinkmann was found laying face down in his bedroom with his hands tied behind his back. There were also wounds indicating blunt-force trauma. Brinkmann had one of his two safes stolen, as well as his 2009 Honda Civic, which police later found in the Bronx.
Brinkmann's son believes the attack and killing was random. He said his father was well-liked and was not the type of person to have enemies.
If Murray is ultimately found guilty of the charges, she could face a lifetime in prison, without or without the possibility of parole.
Brinkmann, a native of Latvia, immigrated to the United States shortly after the end of World War II. Brinkmann escaped the gas chambers five times while imprisoned in Mauthausen, Ebensee and Auschwitz by using his fluency in German to convince the Nazis to spare his life. Brinkmann came to America with his wife, who was also shipped to Auschwitz during the war, and started a bar and nightclub business in New York.
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