A Brooklyn man smothered his frail 86-year-old mother with a pillow in what he claimed was a mercy killing, authorities charged today.
Yefim Tsirinsky, 52, 2819 W. 12th St. in Coney Island called cops at 8 a.m. Friday confessing, “I just smothered my mother,” sources told The Post.
EMS resuscitated Frida Tsirinsky at the home, and then rushed her to Coney Island hospital, where she died today, authorities said.
“My mother asked me to kill her,” the son told police, sources quoted him saying — adding that his mother, with whom he lived in the apartment, allegedly told him: “I don’t want to live anymore,” the source said.
Sources said the mother had health issues, but it was unclear what they were.
The son, who is unemployed, and has no previous arrest record, has now been charged with murder and strangulation, authorities said.
A new law that took effect Nov. 11 makes intentional strangulation a separate crime, in order to strengthen cases of domestic abuse.