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Online video shows 20-year-old beating elderly nursing home patient [View all]

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.

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In this hard to watch viral video- a Westwood Nursing Center patient throws punch after punch while a helpless elderly patient covers his head.

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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.

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Detroit police believe the video was taken on May 15th while nursing homes remain on lockdown because of COVID-19 concerns.

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Read more: https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/online-video-shows-20-year-old-beating-elderly-nursing-home-patient

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Online video shows 20-year-old beating elderly nursing home patient [View all] mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 OP

That's very disturbing. Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #1

Video showing man beating 75-year-old until he bleeds leads to arrest mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 #2

Who taped this? marble falls May 2020 #3

I don't know. It looks as if the camera were carefully hidden behind the paper towels. mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 #4

Family members are not allowed into nursing homes right now. LisaL May 2020 #6

I hope there was good intent, but if this was a 'trophy' footage or taken because this ... marble falls May 2020 #11

Oh, it was absolutely trophy footage obamanut2012 May 2020 #17

That's my thought. Totally premeditated. marble falls May 2020 #23

Looks like the trophe footage. 3Hotdogs May 2020 #19

The abuser seems to be handling the camera at the end, as though he wants to be seen tblue37 May 2020 #21

Statement from the nursing home: dalton99a May 2020 #5

Seems bizarre that apparently physically able 20 year old LisaL May 2020 #7

Perhaps a step down care placement following a hospital stay Devil Child May 2020 #9

Well it clearly was a wrong place for a 20 year old to be placed among LisaL May 2020 #10

One of our local nursing homes has a very bad reputation because it takes DURHAM D May 2020 #13

Yeah, my first thought was that this si what it was obamanut2012 May 2020 #16

Those who beat the elderly are no better than rabid animals and deserve the same fate Devil Child May 2020 #8

Please edit to show statistics of recent increase in assaults on seniors. Maggiemayhem May 2020 #12

hope he is on charges and will never work in a nursing home again. i wont watch vid. AllaN01Bear May 2020 #14

Understandably. I couldn't take more than a few seconds. NT mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 #15

He was not an employee, but a patient n/t obamanut2012 May 2020 #18

he doesn't work there. barbtries May 2020 #20

What the actual fuck!? n/t SpankMe May 2020 #22

I hope he gets the most severe sentence possible. EllieBC May 2020 #24

Cowardly shitstain should be charged w/hate crime. radius777 May 2020 #25

WTF? jcmaine72 May 2020 #26