An arrest has been made in the case of a man accused of putting his grandmother in the freezer to die.

A man in northwest Georgia is accused of killing his grandmother by shoving her in a freezer while she was still alive, according to police.

Doris Cumming, 82, was discovered dead in the Armuchee house she shared with her grandson, 29-year-old Robert Keith Tincher III, late Thursday.

Tincher was accused of murder, aggravated violence, and concealing another person's death. He is still imprisoned in Rome. It's unknown whether he has a lawyer who could speak for him.

Cumming's family believed she had gone out of state, but after not hearing from her, they became concerned and reported her missing to the police.

Cumming was hurt in a fall in December, according to police, and Tincher dragged her home instead of seeking medical assistance.

Tincher "heard and observed multiple bones crack," according to the accusations. Tincher "acknowledged her back broke going into the freezer," according to the charges, after wrapping her in plastic bags and placing her in a large freezer. According to the charges, there was "no confrontation or provocation" before the conduct.

Floyd County Investigator Brittany Werner told WAGA-TV that "from what we discovered at the time, he believed she was still breathing and had some movement at the time she was going into the freezer."

Tincher stayed in the house for months with the body in the freezer, but in March, fearing Cumming's body might be discovered, he moved it to a storage unit.

Tincher said to the police that, he didn't contact 911 because he was wanted for making terroristic threats against his wife in 2018, according to Werner.

Tincher also expressed his devotion to his grandmother to investigators.

"He said she was the only family member that treated him with the respect, love, and attention he required," Werner explained.

Cumming's cause of death and time of death are being investigated by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.