A 95-year-old grandmother who Australian police tasered at an old people's home is in critical condition as the homicide squad join a high-profile investigation into the incident, police said on Friday.
Police were called to the Yallambee aged care home in Cooma, about 300 km southwest of Sydney, on Wednesday after staff found resident Clare Nowland outside her room holding a steak-knife, said assistant commissioner Peter Cotter at a press conference.
Two officers spoke with Nowland for several minutes but when she failed to drop the knife and approached them, one fired a taser, knocking her to the ground.
