After initially ruled as undetermined, an 81-year-old Norfolk woman’s death is now considered a homicide, and authorities have now charged her daughter and grandson.
Police responded to Commonwealth Senior Living on Poplar Hall Drive following a report of an unresponsive patient at 11:55 p.m.June 30. First responders pronounced Cleo A. Loizides dead at the scene.
Loizides’s death was classified as “undetermined” until Tuesday when, according to news release, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled it a homicide. Donna Price, Regional Medicolegal Administrator for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, said in an email Wednesday both the cause and manner of death for Loizides are pending.
Detectives have arrested Loizides’s daughter, 53-year-old Heather A. Cummings of Hobart, Indiana, and grandson, 24-year-old Clifton L. Cummings of Norfolk on charges of second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. No further details were made available.
The pair are being held at Norfolk City Jail without bond.
Gavin Stone, 757-712-4806, gavin.stone@virginiamedia.com
