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 diffuse traumatic brain injury that he suffered in York, a city of around 44,800 about 100 miles west of Philadelphia, when he was 26 years old, the coroner’s office said in a statement.
A homicide ruling means someone else caused a person’s death.
Tschudy “was reportedly assaulted with a baseball bat by unknown assailants at the time, a case of mistaken identity," the coroner's office said. No arrests were ever made, and the assailants, who fled, were never identified.
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Tschudy died at a nursing home in Dallastown on June 5.
The coroner’s office said no charges will be filed because of the inability to identify the attackers. “However, this is ruled a homicide in manner of death as the injuries eventually contributed to Tschudy’s death 38 years later,” the coroner said in a statement.
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