63-year-old woman dies after attack at Tacoma psychiatric hospital

TACOMA, Wash. — A 63-year-old woman has died after she was attacked at a psychiatric hospital in Tacoma just two weeks earlier, according to the Tacoma Police Department.

Pierce County prosecutors charged 25-year-old Elias Santos Salcedo in connection with the March 14 attack at Wellfound Behavioral Health on South 19th Street, where he was also a patient.

Salcedo was initially charged with first-degree attempted murder after prosecutors said he beat the 63-year-old woman inside the psychiatric hospital, KING 5 previously reported…

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