GADSDEN COUNTY (WTXL) - A former hospital employee, accused of brawling with a disabled patient, was arrested Tuesday according to deputies.
Attorney General Pam Bondi's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office said the fight occurred in April when other employees said that 29-year-old Alashi Lurry was in the patient's room talking to another employee.
The employees told investigators that the patient was already agitated before Lurry came into the room and her presence only made it worse. The patient told her to leave and both her and the employee she was talking to ignored the patient. According to investigators, the patient got mad and allegedly hit Lurry.
Employees managed to restrain the patient when she then ran over to kick and punch the patient in the face. The employees also told investigators that she kept trying to go back into the patient's room to fight multiple times.
She was a former employee for Gadsden County Florida State Hospital. Lurry has been charged with one county of abuse of a disabled adult, a third degree felony.
