An 84-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death of a 74-year-old woman in Sullivan County.
Police say they went to a home on Cold Spring Road last Wednesday to tell someone that a resident of the home, now identified as 84-year-old Thomas Montanya, had been involved in a crash. That's when authorities found Helen Dutcher inside the home with an apparent gunshot wound.
The Sullivan County District Attorney's office says Montanya, who had been hospitalized after the crash, was arrested late Tuesday night and charged with second-degree murder. He's accused of shooting Dutcher with a double-barrel shotgun.
Montanya was arraigned late Tuesday night, and is being held in the Sullivan County Jail without bail.