A female patient beaten by another patient at a Tacoma psychiatric hospital last month has died after succumbing to her injuries.
The victim, a 63-year-old woman staying at Wellfound Behavioral Health located on S. 19th Street in Tacoma, was attacked by Elias Santos Salcedo, a 25-year-old patient, on March 14. According to court documents obtained by The Tacoma News Tribune, he punched her in the face, knocking her unconscious, before beating her three separate times while staff attempted to pull him off of her and separate them.
According to patients and staff who witnessed the attack, it was unprovoked…