A man from California has allegedly killed a fellow Covid-19 patient with an oxygen tank in hospital. Jesse Martinez, 37, has been charged with murder and hate crime following the incident in Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, southern California, last week.
The suspect allegedly became upset when an 82-year-old Latino man started to pray in the hospital room they shared. He then allegedly struck the victim with an oxygen tank, ABC7 reports.
The victim succumbed to his injuries the following day, police said. Martinez and the victim were being treated for Covid-19 in the same hospital room but they did not know each other, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.