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03-10-2005, 08:14 AM
Woman In Wheelchair Left Outside Casino For 15 Hours (http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_068154217.html)
GARY, Ind. (AP) Indiana State Police say a Chicago man left his 82-year-old mother sitting in a wheelchair for more than 15 hours at the entrance to a Gary casino while he gambled inside.
Casino workers say they first noticed the woman at about 9 p.m. Mar. 1, when her son requested a wheelchair for her.
She was still there the next morning. Over her objections, casino workers paged her son, who didn't respond.
The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment of a broken hip. She told hospital workers she was injured in a fall at her home a couple weeks earlier.
Authorities say they've issued an arrest warrant for the son, Andrew Hawkins Junior.
GARY, Ind. (AP) Indiana State Police say a Chicago man left his 82-year-old mother sitting in a wheelchair for more than 15 hours at the entrance to a Gary casino while he gambled inside.
Casino workers say they first noticed the woman at about 9 p.m. Mar. 1, when her son requested a wheelchair for her.
She was still there the next morning. Over her objections, casino workers paged her son, who didn't respond.
The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment of a broken hip. She told hospital workers she was injured in a fall at her home a couple weeks earlier.
Authorities say they've issued an arrest warrant for the son, Andrew Hawkins Junior.