FRAMINGHAM MA June 8 2018  – A security guard who worked at MetroWest Medical Center repeatedly slapped a dementia patient in the face and tightly grabbed the man, leaving him battered and bruised, authorities said.
Luis Gonzalez, 50, was not arrested after the April 28 incident, but police summoned him to Framingham District Court.
Gonzalez worked for a private security contractor and no longer works in the hospital, his lawyer, Bob Costello, said in court on Wednesday.
According to a police report filed in court on Wednesday, police went to the hospital for a report of an assault on a patient. The patient was a 72-year-old man who suffered from dementia.
Police spoke to Gonzalez’s supervisor. The supervisor said he walked by the room and saw Gonzalez shove the older man onto the bed. He said it appeared Gonzalez was being too rough with the man, gripping his wrists as the man struggled, police wrote in the report.
″(The supervisor) saw Gonzalez released his (the victim’s) right hand then hit (the victim) in the face three times with an open hand,” police wrote in the report.
The supervisor pulled Gonzalez from the man. Gonzalez claimed the man had punched him, but the supervisor told police he did not see that.
When police spoke to the victim, they noticed he had bruises on his face and both of his wrists, police wrote in the report.
″(He) told me that the security guard had grabbed his wrists and then hit him in the face,” police wrote.
Gonzalez was gone when police arrived, so they obtained a summons. They charged Gonzalez, of 7 A St., Hopkinton, with assault and battery on a person older than 60 causing injury.
At Gonzalez’s arraignment on Wednesday, Judge Matthew McGrath released Gonzalez without bail. He ordered Gonzalez to stay away from MetroWest Medical Center and to stay away from Sudbury Pines, where the victim resides.
Gonzalez is due back in court next month for a pretrial conference.

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