Second Victim in Violent Home Invasion Dies From Injuries

According to the District Attorney's Office, Joanna Fisher, 77, died Thursday morning at UMass Memorial Medical Center

The second victim of a home invasion in Orange, Massachusetts has died from her injuries.

According to the District Attorney's Office, Joanna Fisher, 77, died Thursday morning at UMass Memorial Medical Center.

The cause of her death has not yet been determined.

Her husband, 95-year-old Thomas Harty died last month.

The suspects in the home invasion, Joshua Hart, 23, and 27-year-old Brittany Smith, 27, were ordered held without bail.

Prosecutors said the suspects broke into the home on Oct. 6 and began beating and stabbing Harty and Fisher. Harty died after suffering stab wounds and being suffocated with a pillow.

Hart and Smith are charged with murder, attempted murder, home invasion, armed robbery, conspiracy, larceny over $250, larceny of a motor vehicle and receiving stolen property. Their next court date will be on Dec. 20.

Hart and Smith allegedly stole credit and debit cards and the victims' station wagon before taking off. They told investigators they committed the deadly home invasion to go somewhere else and start a new life.

The suspects were caught two days later in a rental truck outside a Wal-Mart in Rockbridge County, Virginia.

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