Online video shows 20-year-old beating elderly nursing home patient
Source: FOX 2 Detroit
Online video shows 20-year-old beating elderly nursing home patient
Published 7 hours ago Crime and Public Safety FOX 2 Detroit
DETROIT (FOX 2) - Heartbreaking and disturbing - that is how people describe a video were told was taken inside the Westwood Nursing Center on Detroit's west side.
It shows a 20-year-old patient relentlessly punching an elderly patient. The video is making rounds on social media and we do want to warn you its graphic.
{snip}
In this hard to watch viral video- a Westwood Nursing Center patient throws punch after punch while a helpless elderly patient covers his head.
{snip}
Detroit police then arrested the 20-year-old while the elderly man went to a hospital for non-life threatening injuries. Ann Arbor police say when they called the nursing home and staff there already knew about it.
{snip}
Detroit police believe the video was taken on May 15th while nursing homes remain on lockdown because of COVID-19 concerns.
{snip}
Read more: https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/online-video-shows-20-year-old-beating-elderly-nursing-home-patient
For once in his life, one of Donald Trump's tweets might have been of some value.
See Aaron Rupar's thread, starting here:
when the hydroxy hits
Link to tweet
Absolutely a hallucination. Fisted hand
https://fox2detroit.com/news/online-video-shows-20-year-old-beating-elderly-nursing-home-patient
Link to tweet
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,360 posts)Meredith Spelbring, Detroit Free Press Published 8:49 p.m. ET May 21, 2020
Police arrested a man in connection with the attack of a 75-year-old at a Detroit nursing home Thursday.
Detroit Police arrested a 20-year-old male suspect after a video circulated social media showing several minutes of the suspect repeatedly punching the man at Westwood Rehabilitation Nursing Center on Detroit's west side.
DPD believe both the suspect and the 75-year-old are patients in the nursing home. The victim was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
{snip}
The suspect was taken to the Detroit Detention Center. An investigation into the incident is ongoing, according to police.
Meredith Spelbring is a news intern with the Detroit Free Press. Reach her at mspelbring@freepress.com or on Twitter @mere0415.
marble falls
(57,055 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,360 posts)Someone seems to have suspected something. Family member? Someone on the staff?
LisaL
(44,972 posts)marble falls
(57,055 posts)was not the first time, I hope the kid gets what he deserves. Whatever it is.
obamanut2012
(26,049 posts)Esp. since it was circulated online.
marble falls
(57,055 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,358 posts)It is still during the first part. Then it shakes when he moves the victim and is repositioning it.
tblue37
(65,269 posts)on it, so maybe he is taping it himself.
dalton99a
(81,426 posts)Until we receive more information, we will not be able to comment further on the matter at this time.
https://www.wxyz.com/news/video-captures-brutal-nursing-home-beating-involving-20-year-old-suspect-also-living-in-the-home
LisaL
(44,972 posts)was placed in a nursing home to begin with.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)But yes, bizarre and concerning the lack of staff presence.
LisaL
(44,972 posts)elderly. I am assuming 20 year old has mental issues.
DURHAM D
(32,607 posts)patients in for drug rehab. I have a friend who is a police officer and he says they spend a lot of time there because the rehab patients are visited by their dealers, they fight among themselves all the time and steal from each other, attack the staff, and also attack the other (older) residents. You can imagine the staff turnover.
obamanut2012
(26,049 posts)Devil Child
(2,728 posts)This is so infuriating to see the elderly being preyed upon.
Maggiemayhem
(809 posts)These assaults are happening in a variety of places. Seniors have been made targets of hate.
AllaN01Bear
(18,101 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,360 posts)obamanut2012
(26,049 posts)barbtries
(28,787 posts)was a resident.
SpankMe
(2,957 posts)EllieBC
(3,010 posts)Total garbage human to beat on someone elderly. Oh and I hope the family sues.
radius777
(3,635 posts)We need much stronger laws to protect senior citizens.
When I was growing up (gen-x'er) even the gangbanger types considered it weak/cowardly to harm the elderly.
Anyone who did something like this would've probably been beaten to a pulp.
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)I feel like throwing up after watching that.