The recent death of a 64-year-old Pennsylvania man who was beaten with a baseball bat in a case of mistaken identity 38 years ago has been ruled a homicide, the York County coroner said.
Craig Tschudy died of a diffuse traumatic brain injury he suffered in York, a city of about 44,800 people about 100 miles west of Philadelphia, when he was 26, the coroner’s office said. said in one declaration.
A homicide ruling means that someone else caused a person’s death.
Tschudy “was allegedly assaulted with a baseball bat by assailants unknown at the time, a case of mistaken identity,” the coroner’s office said. No arrests were made and the attackers, who fled, were never identified.
Tschudy died at a Dallastown nursing home on June 5.
The coroner’s office said no charges will be filed due to the inability to identify the attackers. “However, this is considered homicide in the form of death, as the injuries eventually contributed to Tschudy’s death 38 years later,” the coroner said in a statement.
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