Jimmy McCloskey Thursday 9 Apr 2020 8:30 pm An 86 year-old dementia sufferer was shoved to ground and killed by a 32 year-old woman after accidentally invading the younger woman’s space, police say. Janie Marshall died at the Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn on March 28 after losing her footing and grabbing Cassandra Lundy’s IV pole.
Lundy is then said to have flown into a rage at the elderly Alzheimer’s sufferer for breaking social distancing rules and hurled her to the floor, causing Marshall to strike her head. She died three hours later. Lundy was initially charged with disorderly conduct over the killing, but has now had charges against her upgraded to manslaughter after an investigation by New York’s medical examiner.
Spain’s coronavirus death rate drops for fourth day after 637 more die Marshall’s grand niece Antoinette Leonard Jean Charles said: ‘How do you put your hands on a 86-year-old woman? I also understand the fear level of every person in New York has. There is a notion of every man for themselves.
But attacking an elderly person? That went too far.’ Marshall was admitted to hospital on March 27 after complaining about stomach pains, with her niece Eleanor Leonard calling an ambulance, which brought her to Woodhull.
There, doctors diagnosed Marshall – a retired accountant who had been one of the first black women to enter the profession – with a blocked bowel.
They told the elderly woman’s family they could not sit with her in the emergency room because of social distancing guidelines to try and prevent the spread of coronavirus. New York is currently the global epicenter for the outbreak, with 160,000 cases across the state, and over 7,000 deaths.
The day after Marshall was admitted, she began wandering around the emergency room, and came into contact with Lundy. An argument ensued, which is said to have ended with the shove that killed Marshall, according to The New York Times.
The elderly woman died several hours after being pushed. Fly -tipping soars as families clear their houses when recycling centres are closed Marshall’s niece Leonard continued to phone the hospital for updates on her aunt’s condition, and was heartened on being told her relative was receiving medical care, not realizing it was for a far more serious injury.
She received a call in the early hours of March 29 to tell her that her great aunt had died of cardiac arrest. Leonard only discovered what had happened when a friend called her to draw her attention to an online news report about her aunt’s murder. She said: ‘I was so stunned. It just tore at my gut that something like this would happen.’
