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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News 

(Pittsburgh, PA) Two employees at a nursing home in the area of Pittsburgh are now facing charges after alleged abuse of a male resident was caught on camera. Officers noticed the suspects, Joseph Love and Lamon Mitchell on a surveillance video when they started to antagonize an eighty-five-year-old man in his room at Celebration Villa of Lakemont Farms. Some of the actions that the suspects were doing to the man that were caught on video were that they smacked the man in the head, held him down by his wrists and they removed his pants at one point. Mitchell was then seen grabbing the victim forcefully off the couch and dragging him on the floor before placing him in a wheelchair and wheeling him out of his room. Both suspects got charges of neglect of a care dependent person and abuse of a care dependent person. According to a statement to KDKA-TV, Priority Life Care, the company that manages Celebration Vila, said in part: “Following our established protocols, we took immediate action: the employees in question were suspended pending a thorough investigation and, as warranted by the findings of that investigation, their employment was terminated.”