Mentally Ill Endangering Nursing Home Patients

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CHICAGO (AP) - Ivory Jackson had Alzheimer's, but that wasn't what killed him. At 77, he was smashed in the face with a clock radio as he lay in his nursing home bed.

Jackson's roommate - a mentally ill man nearly 30 years younger - was arrested and charged with the killing. Police found him sitting next to the nurse's station, blood on his hands, clothes and shoes. Inside their room, the ceiling was spattered with blood.

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Mentally Ill Endangering Nursing Home Patients

"Why didn't they do what they needed to do to protect my dad?" wondered Jackson'...

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