A woman who went missing from an assisted living facility in Newport News last Thursday has returned to the facility. The Open Arms Assisted Living Facility reported that the 41-year-old resident returned around Midnight on Saturday. According to police, she appeared to alert and in good health.

A nursing home employee has been fired and may face criminal charges after she was caught replacing residents liquid pain medications with water. The administrator discovered that the drugs had been tampered with in September and the investigation was concluded last month. According to a county official, the nurse was stealing morphine.

Police have confirmed that the shooting that killed two elderly people in a nursing home this week was a murder suicide.  The man and woman who were shot Friday were husband and wife. The man was a frequent visitor to the facility where his wife had been living. A friend of the husband contacted the police Friday afternoon to say that the man was acting strangely and had planned to visit his wife at the facility.

Police and officials from the Department of Children and Families have begun investigating a health and rehab center after accusations of elder neglect surfaced. The investigation was prompted by the hospitalization of a resident at the facility. Nurses at the hospital contacted police to report that an elderly man had arrived with severe pressure ulcers (also knows as bed sores, pressure sores, decubitus sores, and decubitus ulcers).

Police have charged a 68-year-old man with the stabbing death of his neighbor in an assisted living facility. The suspect, who called 911 moments after the incident, told the dispatcher, “I just stabbed someone in the neck.” When police arrived, a trail of blood in the hallway from the other resident’s room lead them to his collapsed body. The suspect told police he killed the man because he was wearing a red hat and had placed a flower on his door.

Police have located an elderly dementia patient who was missing for over 24 hours after wandering away from a nursing home. The 86-year-old man went missing on Sunday evening and was not found until sometime Tuesday morning. The community was notified to keep an eye out for the missing man.