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# Coney Island Man Arrested For Mom’s Mercy Killing
- URL: https://bklyner.com/coney-island-man-arrested-for-moms-mercy-killing-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2010-12-20T16:00:51.000Z
- Updated: 2010-12-20T16:00:51.000Z
- Author: Samantha LoSapio
- Tags: frida tsirinsky, west 12th st, yefim tsirinksky, #API-Imported

An elderly Brooklyn woman is dead and her son behind bars after a disturbing ordeal some are calling a mercy killing.

Coney Island resident Frida Tsirinsksy, 86, was strangled by her son on Friday.

Yefim Tsirinsky, who is unemployed and lived with his mother, called authorities after placing a pillow over her face in their home at 2819 West 12th Street. He told an officer, “I just smothered my mother; I just suffocated my mother.” According to police, there is no record of any prior incidents and there did not appear to be a struggle.

The elder Tsirinsky survived for 24 hours after the incident, dying on Saturday in Coney Island Hospital.

Yefim has been charged with second-degree murder and first- and second-degree strangulation today, but neighbors are shocked by that actions of a man they describe as a dutiful son by neighbors.

“He looked like he was so dedicated,” neighbor Donald Solomon[ told the NY Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/nyregion/19slaying.html?%5Fr=1&src=twrhp&ref=bklyner.com). “He just went off.”

Yefim claims his mother indicated that she did not want to live anymore. Euthanasia, however, is illegal in all of the United States.