MONTREAL, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A young Montreal man has been charged with beating and stabbing his sister and leaving her body in a bathtub for their mother to find.
Maor Attar, 18, entered a not guilty plea Tuesday to a charge of first-degree murder, the Montreal Gazette reported. He followed his arraignment by telephone from a bed at Jewish General Hospital.
Shirel Attar, 14, a student at Marymount Academy, was killed Monday. Attar was not home when the body was discovered but was found a few hours later walking nearby.
Investigators say he may have tried to kill himself with poison.
Attar graduated from Hebrew Academy last year. Yigal Bettan, 15, a student at the school, said Attar then went to Israel and had recently come back to study at a religious school in Montreal. UPI
