{"id":975679,"date":"2021-03-01T16:43:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=975679"},"modified":"2021-03-02T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T22:43:14","slug":"uthsc-staffer-arrested-for-allegedly-hitting-schizophrenia-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=975679","title":{"rendered":"UTHSC staffer arrested for allegedly hitting schizophrenia patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-975687\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/Woman-aleged-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER &#8212; A UT Health Science Center employee was arrested for allegedly slapping a schizophrenia patient in the face during a Feb. 1 incident. According to our news partner KETK, Lavinya Denise Warren, 45, was accused by the elderly patient of putting her in an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153arm lock\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and hitting her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153with an open hand on the right side of her face.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The victim also said that in a separate incident, Warren hit her in the chest. UT Health released a statement to KETK, saying: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This individual is no longer employed. We have cooperated with appropriate authorities.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tyler police reviewed security footage, which allegedly recorded Warren forcefully walking the victim down the hallway back to her room. Warren appears to shove the victim into the room and them attempts to hold the door shut, preventing her from leaving the room. A separate camera in the victim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s room appeared to show [Warren] strike the victim with an open hand, according to the warrant. Warren is charged with injury to the elderly and posted a $10,000 bond after being arrested on February 5. Warren could face up to 10 years in prison, if convicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A UT Health Science Center employee was arrested for allegedly slapping a schizophrenia patient in the face during a Feb. 1 incident. According to our news partner KETK, Lavinya Denise Warren, 45, was accused by the elderly patient of putting her in an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153arm lock\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and hitting her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153with an open hand on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=975679\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UTHSC staffer arrested for allegedly hitting schizophrenia patient<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":975693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/Woman-aleged-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"UTHSC staffer arrested for allegedly hitting schizophrenia patient","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 16:51:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/Woman-aleged-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"UTHSC staffer arrested for allegedly hitting schizophrenia patient","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975928,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975679\/revisions\/975928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/975693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}