New bodycamera video shows a deputy’s encounter with a man a day before he allegedly brutally attacked a nurse at a Palm Beach County hospital last month.
New bodycamera video shows a deputy's encounter with a man a day before he allegedly brutally attacked a nurse at a Palm Beach County hospital last month.
Stephen Scantlebury, 33, faces an attempted murder charge with a hate crime enhancement in the attack.
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WATCH HEREThe video shows Scantlebury in Wellington on Feb. 17 refusing a Palm Beach deputy's offer to seek mental health despite his mother's pleas for him to get help.
"Do you want to go to JFK North Hospital and talk to a mental health professional?" the deputy asks him in the video.
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"Ha, no," Scantlebury responds.
The next day, deputies say he attacked the nurse at HCA Florida Palms West Hospital while under a psychiatric hold.
Scantlebury beat nurse Leelamma Lal so badly that "essentially every bone" was broken in her face, authorities said.
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Her daughter said she had to undergo extensive facial reconstruction.
"Indians are bad and I just beat the (expletive) out of an Indian doctor," he said, according to authorities.
Scantlebury remains behind bars while he awaits trial.
