Thursday, July 25, 2013

Man to be charged with first-degree murder in connection with rape, death of 93-year-old

Louise Sollowin spent 50 years helping her sister fire up the oven at Orsi's Italian Bakery, where her love of the family business kept her going well into her 80s. She worked at the bakery until about 10 years ago, when her weakening eyesight forced her to retire.

Sollowin baked and cleaned, chatting almost exclusively in Italian with her sister, Frances Orsi, whose husband, Claudio, ran the bakery for decades. Sollowin's husband, Joe, did the books.

“I grew up there,” Joe Sollowin said. “Family's family. You helped out no matter what.”Sergio Martinez-Perez, 19, beat and raped Sollowin because he had been drinking much of the previous night and was “angry with women,” a prosecutor told a Douglas County Court judge Wednesday.

Investigators said Martinez-Perez is not a legal resident of the United States, and that his country of origin is not yet clear.

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