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CLEVELAND – A 10-year-old boy apparently angry that a 90-year-old woman had yelled at him held a cane against her throat and repeatedly punched her, killing her in her bed, prosecutors said.

The boy was being held without bail Tuesday, charged as an adult with criminal homicide in the death of Helen Novak, a woman who was being cared for by his grandfather.

His attorney, Bernard Brown, said he would seek to have the boy released into his father’s care at a bail hearing Wednesday.

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