20-year-old beating suspect was moved to nursing home because he has COVID-19, says father

The suspect's father, who asked not to be named, said his son has mental health issues and a pending assault case in Washtenaw County and should never have been placed in the nursing home.

"He has issues and for them to put him in a facility like that, nothing good was going to happen," the suspect's father told 7 Action News.

He said his son was recently moved to the nursing center because the 20-year-old was diagnosed with COVID-19 at the University of Michigan Hospital.

"He never should have been housed.. quarantined with the victim that he eventually assaulted. That should have never happened," he said. "Someone dropped the ball."

Relatives of the 75-year-old man who was brutally beaten inside the Westwood Nursing Center began to suspect something was wrong because they couldn't get in touch with him and they said neither could staffers at the Veterans Hospital.

What they now know is that, for some reason, the Army veteran was taken from his apartment in Detroit to the Westwood Nursing Center on Schaefer on the city's west side.

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It appears this guy was already in trouble for assaulting staff at another facility and has a history of mental-illness (I couldn't find what he suffers from anywhere). He was moved to this facility after testing positive for the WuFlu. This was where he was being quarantined!