CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – A Clarksville nurse aide arrested in Georgia almost a year after being indicted on homicide and elderly abuse charges was sentenced Wednesday to serve three years of probation.
Takesha Shantel Tucker, 47, took an open plea in February to criminally negligent homicide, and the abuse charge was dismissed as part of the settlement.
In March 2022, TBI agents were notified that Tucker – a certified nurse aide working in a Clarksville care facility – failed to properly use a lift while trying to move a patient.
As a result, 88-year-old resident Patricia Oliver died in April 2022 with serious bodily injures from the fall. According to her obituary, Oliver was a Navy veteran and the former historian for the American Legion Post in Dover, Tennessee…