Nursing home worker: Murder suspect ‘gentle’
Police are investigating the death of a man at a Dayton nursing home as the result of smothering/strangulation.
Anthony Moran, 45, of Dayton, died Wednesday, and his death was ruled a homicide by Montgomery County Coroner Kent Harshbarger.
A 59-yearold man, Salvador Negrete Cisneros, was arrested Wednesday at Mary Scott Nursing Home on Campus Drive, which is the same location where Moran died.
Cisneros was booked on a murder charge, according to Miami Valley Jails booking records, but has not been formally charged at this time.
Dayton police are continuing to investigate Moran’s death, Lt. Jason Hall said Thursday during a press conference.
“We are not at liberty at this time to discuss the details of that case as it is still going on,” Hall said.
Dayton police began their investigation when a worker at the nursing home called 9-1-1 dispatchers and reported Moran’s death.
“Not only do we need an ambulance, we need police please,” the worker told a dispatcher. “A resident, he came out the door, all calm and collected. He was like, ‘I really don’t feel good.’ I was like, ‘OK, well, what’s wrong?’ I could tell he kind of looked different, but I know he has ... issues. But he’s never acted out or anything. He’s not acting out now.”
The worker said that she asked Cisneros if he felt like hurting himself or someone else.
“And he said, ‘I did. I killed Anthony,’” the woman said. “And his roommate is in there dead.”
The woman said she didn’t hear anything during the attack: “There wasn’t no screaming, no hollering, no nothing.”
The woman said that, at the time of the call, Cisneros was acting nice and calm.
“He’s always very sweet, gentle, calm. I don’t know what triggered, but he’s been fine all my shift,” she said.