The BriefDunedin nursing home employee, Nicholas Brown, was fired and arrested after hitting two residents in his care. Brown was a certified nursing assistant at the facility. Another employee saw the suspect hitting both residents who have disabilities and are considered non-verbal.

An employee at a Dunedin nursing home was taken into custody Tuesday following an investigation into reports that he beat two disabled residents.

Nicholas Brown, a nursing assistant, is charged with abusing two disabled residents at a Dunedin care facility.

An employee at a Florida nursing home is accused of striking disabled residents multiple times, authorities said. Detectives began investigating a report Dec. 23 that two residents were abused by an employee at Lake Haven Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility in Dunedin, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said in a Jan. 7 news release.

An employee at a Dunedin nursing home was taken into custody Tuesday following an investigation into reports that he beat two residents with disabilities. Nicholas Brown, 35, of St. Petersburg, was arrested and charged with two counts of abuse or neglect of an aged or disabled person,