PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) - Florida police say a 95-year-old nursing home patient died after being attacked in his room.
According to a news release from Port St. Lucie Police, staff members at Tiffany Hall Nursing and Rehabilitation Center called 911 just after midnight Sunday when a nurse who walked by the patient’s room saw a man sitting on top of the patients’s chest, holding a pillow over his face.
TC Palm reports the nurse shouted for help and the man ran off. The patient was dead when police arrived.
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Police set up a perimeter and searched the area with a K-9 unit and the county sheriff’s office helped with a helicopter, but they were unable to locate the suspect, who was described as a white male.
The investigation is ongoing.
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