Janie Marshall, who had dementia, lost her bearings at a Brooklyn hospital and grabbed onto another patient’s IV pole to regain her balance. The patient then fatally shoved the 86-year-old for breaking the rules of social distancing, police said
NEW YORK — One Saturday afternoon in late March, as the coronavirus pandemic flooded hospitals across New York City with desperately ill people, an 86-year-old lost her bearings and started wandering the emergency room at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center in Brooklyn.
Initially, hospital officials handed Lundy a summons for disorderly conduct. But a week later, after the medical examiner ruled Marshall’s death a homicide, police charged Lundy with manslaughter and assault. But the hospital, in an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus, did not allow Leonard or other family members to stay with her in the emergency room. Leonard said she could do nothing but wait by the phone for updates.
“I thought, ‘That’s great. She’s being tended to,’ ” Leonard recalled. “I didn’t know she was dead already.” Then a cousin on Long Island called Leonard with troubling news. He had seen a news report online. “Did you know your aunt was murdered?” the cousin asked.
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