Elderly New York Patient Dies After Coronavirus-Related Assault At Hospital

An 86-year-old Brooklyn, New York, woman died Saturday after she was attacked by a person for violating social distancing.

Janie Marshall died in Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Woodhull Hospital after she was hit in the head by 32-year-old Cassandra Lundy following a tense argument over Marshall not practicing social distancing.

Marshall was at the hospital for a bowel obstruction. The incident took place around 2 p.m on Saturday when Lundy, a seizure patient, lashed out at Marshall for taking a metal stand that was near her bed complaining that she wasn’t following the coronavirus social distancing guidelines.

The argument heated up and Lundy struck Marshall in the head immediately knocking her to the ground.

Although there weren’t any witnesses, the incident was caught on CCTV. The New York Police Department was informed who issued Lundy a summon for disorderly conduct and released her.

But Marshall succumbed to the injury. The autopsy results are yet to be released depending on which Lundy could face serious charges. She could be charged even for what will be called the city’s first coronavirus-related homicide.

Lundy, a Bedford-Stuyvesant resident, was already convicted 17 times, on charges including drug possession, trespass, assault, and strangulation.