FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The 50-year-old man accused of causing his father's death to teach the Alzheimer's patient a lesson for stripping naked on the beach in Fort Lauderdale will face murder charges.

Robert Yurkanin Jr. is charged with felony murder in connection with the death of his 84-year-old father, Robert Yurkanin Sr., in June. Findings announced by a grand jury Thursday determined that Yurkanin will face first-degree murder charges.

Yurkanin Sr. was found unconscious and unresponsive on the beach in the 3500 block of Galt Ocean Drive on June 15. He was transported to Holy Cross Hospital, where he died the next day.

According to police, witnesses told detectives Yurkanin Jr. got upset with his father for taking off his bathing suit and dragged him into the water, saying, "This is the only way he is going to learn."

Once in the water, Yurkanin Jr. left his father's head submerged while attempting to put his bathing suit back on, police said. Yurkanin Sr.'s torso was submerged for periods of time while his legs were sticking out of the water, witnesses told police.

Police said that when Yurkanin Jr. brought his father to the shoreline, he didn't bring him completely out of the water and left his unconscious body at the water's edge, where incoming waves crashed over his body. Witnesses told police Yurkanin Jr. went for a swim in the meantime.

An autopsy concluded Yurkanin Sr. died from complications of a near drowning and the manner of death was ruled a homicide.