Police: Man shot assisted living worker to stop 'thievery'

[Judi Lynn]

COLLEEN SLEVIN,
Associated Press
Feb. 4, 2021
Updated: Feb. 4, 2021 5:50 p.m.

DENVER (AP) — A 95-year-old Colorado man accused of shooting and killing a maintenance worker at his assisted living center told police he was tired of staffers stealing money from him and decided to shoot the man to make the thefts stop, according to a court document released Thursday.

Okey Payne was arrested Wednesday in his room at Legacy Assisted Living in Lafayette, 22 miles (35 kilometers) north of Denver. Investigators say he shot Ricardo Medina-Rojas after confronting him about $200 that he said was missing from his wallet.

Payne said Medina-Rojas “mumbled something" before he shot him once in the head. Medina-Rojas later died at a hospital.

An arrest affidavit from police says Payne said he confronted another man about the money that he noticed was missing from his wallet on Monday but that man, whose name was redacted from the report, did not reply to him.

More:
https://www.chron.com/news/article/Police-Man-shot-assisted-living-worker-to-stop-15925764.php

[Marcuse]

1. Sad. Staff had secured his guns but missed one.

[SharonAnn]

2. My 89 year old father thought aides were stealing from him. After his death, we found

numerous bank envelopes where he had withdrawn money/cashed a check and put the envelope in a place where he thought "he wouldn't forget it".

I know theft can happen in these situations, but also can false accusations of theft. But the "victim" thinks it's real.