A 22-year-old Maryland woman is accused of killing her great-grandmother, who was found dead Friday in the Wheaton home where they both lived.
The victim, 80-year-old Doris Elizabeth Shelton, was found shortly after 3:15 p.m. Friday, Montgomery County Police said. Her husband called 911 and said he had gotten home and found his wife unresponsive and not breathing.
Crews responded to the home in the 10500 block of Cascade Place and confirmed Shelton's death. Doris was found under a chair with multiple cuts and blunt trauma, detectives said.
Authorities developed Shelton's great-granddaughter, 22-year-old Shannon Marci Jefferson Lozano, as a suspect. Lozano was arrested near the home, and police say she made a statement implicating herself in the assault of her great-grandmother.
Lozano is charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond.
At a court appearance Monday, she was ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation.
She also told the judge, "They're doing horrible things to me."
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"Dr. Smith over at the jail will help determine whether or not those statements are, you know, part of a flight of fantasy," Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office spokesman Ramon Korionoff said.
Shelton's body has been taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to confirm the cause and manner of death, police said. Police aren't sure what motivated the killing and the case remains under investigation.
