Jacob Masters had been drifting around Southern California for months when he began suffering a mental breakdown.
On Oct. 27, 2017, Redondo Beach police took him to the Kedren Community Health Center in South Los Angeles, where he was placed on an involuntary hold.
He would never leave.
A week into his stay, Masters was strangled in his room. Another patient — psychotic and suicidal, according to hospital records — has been charged with murder.
Read the full story in the LA Times.
