Caregiver Investigated In Patients' Deaths
Nov 17, 2009
A local nurses assistant has been charged with drugging seven of her elderly patients. Three of them died. Police are now investigating to see if murder charges can be filed.
"My mom says to me, 'I've done my grieving. God took him.' God didn't take him, mom. Somebody killed him," Suzie Yarger said.Yarger believes her uncle, 68-year-old Bill Elgersma, may have been murdered by his nurses assistant.
"His life was taken."
Elgersma passed away in May. At the time the family believed he had a stroke.
He had spent the last seven years as a stroke victim at the Inland Christian home in Ontario -- a convalescent home.
But just weeks ago, 51-year-old Dameria Lawhorn, a certified nurses assistant who worked there, was charged with seven counts of elder abuse for allegedly overdosing seven patients with morphine. Three of them died, including Elgersma.
"They brought him to the hospital and he seized in the middle of the night. That is a horrible thing to go through," Yarger said.
Is Lawhorn an angel of mercy, putting people out of their misery? Ontario police and the coroner's office are still investigating.
(© MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc.
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SOURCE: CBS2
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