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DAYTON — Premier Health Public Safety and Merchants Security previously expressed concern about the health of security guards who were shot dead at Miami Valley Hospital this week after the April incident.

According to Dayton police, Darrell Holderman, 78, was guarding Brian Booth, a prisoner in Montgomery County Jail, at the hospital Wednesday morning. Booth used Holderman’s weapon to commit suicide outside the hospital’s emergency department entrance.

Incident reports obtained by News Center 7 through a request for public records to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office detail the incident from April 2022, and Premier Health is concerned about Holderman’s suitability for work. I have stated.

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Sergeant Dalton Byby, Sergeant Dalton Bybee, of the Health Network’s Safety Department, detailed how he was dispatched to the 5th floor of Miami Valley Hospital on April 28 regarding an incident involving merchant guards.

According to Baby, a security guard identified as a holderman took a prisoner admitted to the hospital to the bathroom. Holderman said the prisoners were in bondage at the time.

The sergeant reported that Holderman allowed him to leave the prisoner a little while he was occupying the toilet to call his boss to check in. In retrospect, he said he saw a man with an IV pole walking in the hallway near HUC’s desk.

Holderman reportedly believed that the man was a prisoner assigned to him to monitor. He approached the man and asked what room he was in and where he was. When the man turned around and replied to him, Holderman soon realized that it was not a prisoner.

Bybee later spoke with a patient care technician who witnessed the incident. She told her sergeant that she was “a little distraught” about the incident.

Witnesses described the same sequence of events as Holderman, but said he approached a man who mistakenly said, “I had a cane in his left hand and his right hand was near the weapon of his mission.” ..

The report said both Baby and Holderman would contact the merchant regarding the case.

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On April 29, the hospital handed the report to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, which subsequently contacted the General Manager of Merchant Security.

In a reply to the sheriff’s office, general manager Nathan Birchfield said in an email that Holderman thought “I’m old and it’s time to start retreating him.”

“It’s hard to tell someone, but it’s a reality. He’s very diligent, but unfortunately his age and health are catching up with him,” Birchfield said.

News Center 7 has contacted Premier Health for comment on the incident. They introduced Merchants Security for answers to our questions.

News Center 7 has also contacted merchants about the incident and is waiting for a response.

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