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‘I can’t wait for you to die soon’: Chattanooga nursing assistant accused of punching, slapping 90-year-old Alzheimer’s patient


  photo  Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office / Gary Crownover, 51
 
 

A certified nursing assistant has been accused of repeatedly punching a 90-year-old resident at a Chattanooga dementia and Alzheimer’s facility.

Gary Crownover, 51, of LaFayette, Georgia, is facing assault and abuse of a vulnerable adult charges, an affidavit of complaint shows.

Crownover is suspended from his job as a nursing assistant at Ascension Living Valley Residence on Mountain Creek Road.

On Wednesday afternoon, Officer Beau Allison responded to a report of elder abuse at the facility, the complaint said.