Police say two men stole a family’s belongings from Grady Memorial Hospital’s burn unit while the parents were visiting their injured son.
Credit: Channel 2 Action News
Credit: Channel 2 Action News
The family was there to visit Pat Sammons, who has burns on 80 percent of his body as the result of a June house explosion in Roswell, Channel 2 Action News reported.
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Surveillance video from the hospital, obtained by Channel 2, allegedly shows two men rummaging through the father’s unattended bag, taking a laptop and phone out of it and then stealing the whole bag and a bag next to it. The theft happened July 7, and Pat Sammons’ phone was among the items stolen.
“That was pretty low to prey on people who are going through something as tragic as what the people at Grady Hospital (are going through), particularly the burn unit,” Kathy Sammons, Pat’s mother, told the news station.
Channel 2 reported that a code is needed to get into the family room inside the hospital’s burn ward. Grady told the news station it has changed the PIN code to enter the room due to this incident.
Credit: JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM
Credit: JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM
Pat Sammons was one of three men who were injured after a gas leak in their dryer caused their home on Pine Grove Pointe Drive to explode June 12. Win Reid and Brendan Morton, who was also severely burned, were Sammons' roommates.
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A GoFundMe page was set up for the three men, and it had raised more than $43,000 as of Friday afternoon. A Caring Bridge page set up by one of the families has given daily updates on Sammons' and Morton's surgeries.
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