PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Burned and barely breathing. That’s how court documents described 70-year-old Augusta Brown when he showed up to Maryview Hospital in October 2022.
Despite being moved to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital’s burn ward, Brown later died. Portsmouth Police started their work to learn how the burns stretching from the bottom of his back to the middle of his thighs got there.
Detectives sat down with Sabrina Linette Edmonds, Brown’s caretaker who runs an unlicensed care facility out of a home on Taft Drive in Portsmouth. Court records show Brown was placed with Edmonds by the Jewish Family Service of Tidewater…