California’s attorney general may now decide whether a Bay Area senior living provider will face charges in the poisoning deaths of three seniors who were under their care.
Two seniors died last August at Atria Senior Living in San Mateo and a third died at the company’s Walnut Creek facility after the patients drank cleaning solution.
Latishia Sherice Starling, 54, appeared in a Contra Costa County court on charges of elder abuse resulting in death.
The assisted living center worker’s 94-year-old dementia patient, Constantine Canoun died last august after drinking cleaning solution at the living facility in Walnut Creek. But Canoun’s family said it’s the facility, not the worker,