COLUMBUS (WCMH) – Four people have been indicted for their involvement in the death of a patient at a Columbus mental health facility in July 2022.

According to court documents, one patient, two psychiatric assistants and a nurse at Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare in Columbus have been charged in relation to the beating death of another patient at the state-run mental health facility in the Hilltop.

Danny Macklin, a 24-year-old patient at the facility, allegedly attacked 57-year-old Paul Fusik on July 23, 2022. Macklin is charged with murder and felonious assault.

In addition, psychiatric assistants John Traylor, 65, and Augustine Norris, 66, as well as 40-year-old nurse Julie Willoughby, have been charged with involuntary manslaughter and patient abuse or neglect. Traylor and Norris retired in the spring of 2023.

Details of the attack have not yet been made available, but according to county court records, Macklin was a resident at Twin Valley while being evaluated by forensic psychologists to determine whether he was competent to stand trial in a sexual battery case.

Fusik was also a patient after being found not competent to stand trial in a 2022 murder case of the death of a woman in 2021. A Franklin County Coroner’s Office report said he died from blunt force trauma to the head from a physical assault.

Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare is where Ohio courts send those accused of crimes for psychological evaluations and it also houses people with severe mental health needs.

The three employees indicted on March 1 are scheduled for arraignment hearings on March 15. No date has been set for Macklin’s arraignment hearing.