My brother, who lives in Florida, and I are sick. "I am not sure why they didn't take care of him or check him out of the hospital. O, Rodriguez had another side of the family that was able to take care of him. "Although we didn't have the closest relationship, he was my father and we deserve answers from Clara Maass."Īccording to Ms. O told RLS Media that Rodriguez was not homeless and had a family. He just blended in", sources close to the investigation said. "They simply got so used to Rodriguez being at Clara Maass that, at times, hospital staff simply forgot that He was there. Rodriguez desperately wanted to leave the hospital, and they couldn't understand why they wouldn't allow him to go. He fell to the ground and was killed instantly. Rodriguez, in his third-floor hospital room, used about 20-bed sheets that he reportedly knotted together to create a makeshift rope to lower him to the ground in the attempt. It is not clear what happened to the "continuous monitoring" on Tuesday when Mr. Rodriguez was at Clara Maass Hospital for well over six months," sources said, disputing Belleville Police's statement to the media. Rodriguez was not only blocked from leaving the hospital, but he attempted to escape one other time but was immediately captured and then placed on continuous monitoring inside a room at the facility," sources said. Rodriguez wasn't under a special watch that would have prevented him from leaving the hospital through the front doors any time he wanted.īut sources close to the investigation told RLS Media that the statement from Belleville Police lacked accuracy. In a statement, Belleville Police officials told media outlets that Mr. I am not sure why they kept him there that long. "He said he was doing ok but wanted to leave the medical center. She said, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no one was allowed to visit the hospital, but she did speak to her dad via telephone about a year ago. "His closest next of kin is in North Carolina, and I am penniless, so I told the hospital that I couldn't bring him to Puerto Rico because I barely have money to live comfortably here," Ms. O told RLS Media that Clara Maass officials said to her that Rodriguez was being transferred from the hospital to a senior home about a year ago. Rodriguez was not a psychiatric patient after medical officials in that department cleared him. RLS Media learned that Rodriguez's last known address was on Summer Avenue in Newark.Īccording to the daughter, Rodriguez was brought to Clara Maass two years ago after passing out inside a store in Newark. Rodriguez, a Puerto Rico resident who said she was the biological daughter of the victim, identified as Mr. RLS Media was able to locate several family members of the victim who spoke to our staff and shed some light on who the victim was. The horrific incident had officials at the Belleville Hospital lock the hospital down after they found the severely injured, unconscious and unresponsive body of a senior patient lying in the grassy area of the hospital before 6:15 a.m.ĭue to the active police investigation, Robert Wood Johnson, who owns Clara Maass Hospital, would not release information on the incident nor issue a statement. The Essex County Prosecutor's Office has referred all questions to Belleville Police regarding a man who fell from a window of the Clara Maass Hospital after he attempted to escape the medical center Monday.
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