Kenya: Covid Brought Out Our Shame allafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from allafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what s clicking on Foxnews.com.
New Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon’s decision to backtrack on criminal enhancements will come into play in the hate crime slaying of a praying coronavirus patient.
Jesse Martinez, 37, is accused of beating 82-year-old David Hernandez-Garcia to death on Dec. 17 with an oxygen tank because he didn’t like his Catholic prayers. They shared a room at Antelope Valley Hospital.
Martinez faces charges of murder, elder abuse resulting in death and a hate crime, Gascon’s office announced Thursday. He faces a maximum sentence of 28 years to life in prison.
Los Angeles, Calif., Dec 29, 2020 / 12:52 pm (CNA).- Jesse Martinez, a COVID-19 patient who beat a fellow patient to death with an oxygen tank at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, will be arraigned on December 31st for murder, elder abuse, and religion-motivated hate crime, authorities announced on December 28.
The victim, David Hernandez-Garcia, an 82-year-old Catholic Latino man, was a resident of Lancaster, a suburb north of Los Angeles in California. He was being treated for a COVID-19 infection in a two-person room.
According to a report from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, on Thursday, December 17, 2020, at approximately 9:45 a.m., “the victim was at Antelope Valley Hospital receiving treatment for Covid-19. He was housed in a two-person room inside the hospital with the suspect, who was also there receiving treatment. The suspect became upset when the victim started to pray. He then struck the victim with an oxygen tank.”
By Victor Omondi
Authorities in California are investigating the alleged murder of an 82-year-old Covid-19 patient at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, California.
Some days before Christmas, the elderly patient, hospitalized because of Covid-19, decided to seek solace in his Catholic faith and began to pray in the two-person room they shared with one Jesse Martinez, 37. For unknown reasons, this act angered the 37-year-old, who was also receiving treatment for Covid-19. Mr. Martinez later grabbed an oxygen tank and struck the 82-year-old man as he was praying.
The elderly patient has died from the injuries, not from a virus that has killed more than 325,000 Americans. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, “The victim succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased on December 18, 2020, at approximately 10:20 a.m. The victim and suspect did not know each other. The suspect, 37-year-old Jesse Martinez, was arrested and charged with murder, a hate
By City News Service
Hand And Gavel.
LANCASTER (CNS) - Arraignment is scheduled today for a man accused of killing an 82-year-old fellow patient at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, where both men were being treated for COVID-19 when the victim was struck with an oxygen tank as he was praying.
Jesse Martinez, 37, is charged with on one count each of murder and elder or dependent adult abuse resulting in death, along with a hate crime allegation.
He could face up to 28 years to life in state prison if convicted as charged, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney s Office.