OUTRAGEOUS! Charges Dropped On Black Man Who Recorded Himself Beating Old White Man In Nursing Home For Fun

DETROIT (WXYZ) – “He shouldn’t be in jail,” Marty Hayden said of his 22-year-old son Jaden, who has been charged with several counts, including the May 2020 beating of Norman Bledsoe in a nursing home in the West side of Detroit. .

The charges against Jaden Hayden were dismissed after declaring him incompetent.

Marty Hayden said that if his son was convicted and sent to prison, it would only worsen his mental health problems.

“So the system will let him down again. He will not be rehabilitated,” Marty Hayden told 7 Action News on Tuesday, adding that because of his son’s mental health problems he could not understand the severity of his actions.

Marty Hayden hopes to find a lawyer to prosecute for placing his son in a nursing home, where he believes he was set to fail and Bledsoe became a victim.

“Why put him in a nursing home? Elderly people are around, ”he said.

Jaden Hayden filmed himself on video repeatedly struck by Bledsoe as an army veteran lay in his bed. Two men lived in a room at Westwood Nursing Center on the West Side of Detroit.

Jaden Hayden was at a group home in Washington County when he called his father to say he heard voices and thought people wanted to kill him.

“He was in crisis,” Marty Hayden said of his son, who had a history of violent behavior.

In early May 2020, Jaden Hayden called 911 to be sent to hospital for treatment. His father said it was at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, where Jadon was then diagnosed with COVID-19. He said that then a 20-year-old boy who dreamed of becoming a boxer was sent to a nursing home to recover.