Detectives investigating the murder of a 90-year-old man at a Woonona nursing home, have been advised a man allegedly involved has died.
Detectives had been investigating the death of a patient after he was allegedly assaulted by a 70-year-old man at a nursing home on Tuesday 27 November 2018.
A 90-year-old man suffered critical injuries in the assault and was unable to be revived.
Both men were patients in the high-dependency dementia ward at the nursing home.
Officers from Wollongong Police District, together with the State Crime Command's Homicide Squad, initiated an investigation into the death of the 90-year-old man; however, detectives have now been advised the 70-year-old man died in Shellharbour Hospital on Thursday 27 December 2018.
A final report on the investigation into the death of the 90-year-old man will be made to the Coroner.
