The boy's reported statement to police is just as chilling as the alleged crime: A 10-year-old boy charged as an adult in the beating death of a 90-year-old woman offers this explanation, according to the New York Daily News:

"I killed that lady," he reportedly told a trooper at the state police barracks. "I was only trying to hurt her," he allegedly added to police.

Tristen Kurilla

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Tristen Kurilla, of Damascus Township, Wayne County, was visiting his grandfather, Anthony Virbitsky, Saturday when the elderly woman reportedly yelled at the boy for entering her room, according to multiple media reports citing state police.

According to the Pocono Record, the boy punched Helen Novak, 90, of Tyler Hill, Pa., several times in the throat after first putting a cane on her neck.

Kurilla allegedly hooked the cane around the elderly woman's neck and pushed it into her throat for four to five seconds before punching her five times in the throat and five times in the stomach. All this, according to the Scranton Times, citing police.

The Record reports the boy's mother told investigators her son became angry at the woman for yelling, lost his temper and grabbed a cane and put it on Novak's throat. He then punched her several times, according to the Record.

The boy told his grandfather, who was caring for the woman, that Novak was bleeding from her mouth, the AP reports. The grandfather checked on the woman twice; the second time she was unresponsive.

According to the Record, an autopsy showed blunt force trauma to Novak's neck. The boy is charged with criminal homicide in the case.