Teenager Charged With 83-year-old Woman's Rape, Killing

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with an assault, sexual assault and killing of an 83-year-old woman.

Tyrone Harvin, 14, has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder, first-degree rape and various sex offense and assault charges.

Harvin is charged in connection with the assault and killing of 83-year-old Dorothy Mae Neal a week ago. Police said Neal died as a result of homicide by blunt force trauma.

"She was assaulted inside of her home in the 2300 block of Winchester Street in west Baltimore and she died the next day," Baltimore police media relations Chief T.J. Smith said. "She was basically beaten to death."

Smith said investigators found physical evidence that linked Harvin to the crime.