Police: Poughkeepsie woman fatally stabbed by daughter in living room
The felony complaint states Denise Gilpin stabbed her mother once in the chest with a knife in the living room, and that Gilpin did so with the intent to kill her mother.
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Residents of Oak Crescent Street are recovering after what happened to their 78-year-old neighbor, Olga Hinds-Coley.
She was fatally stabbed at her home at about 1 p.m. on Monday.
Poughkeepsie police said in a press release that field medical technicians tried to save her, but she died.
Hinds-Coley's daughter, 50-year-old Denise Gilpin, was arraigned Tuesday in Poughkeepsie City Court on murder in the second degree.
"I came home to a crazy little block that we live on," a close friend of Hinds-Coley said Tuesday. "They're a very nice family. I don't understand any of this."
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The felony complaint states Gilpin stabbed her mother once in the chest with a knife in the living room, and that Gilpin did so with the intent to kill her mother.
"They invited us over for dinner and coffee and everything," said Carlos Marzano, who lives across the street from the crime scene.
He said the tiny loop off of Cherry Street is always quiet, and that Olga and her family were always "sweet."
Marzano said that has Monday afternoon progressed, the neighborhood group chat kept dinging with alerts.
They did not see this coming.
"Then we saw actually news stories being published, and then you're trying to fill in a lot of those gaps," Marzano said. "It was a very heavy day. It's still a lot and we're all still processing."
Police are still investigating and have not released details about what might have led up to the stabbing.
Gilpin will be back in court Friday for a preliminary hearing.
