Staff at a Dayton rehab center, Woodhaven, on Thursday told police a client with an out-of-county address read a written poem during a therapy session. The poem suggested the client and an unnamed friend were using drugs in a vacant building when the friend brandished a gun, possibly a revolver.
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The client said he “requested to see the gun,” and when the friend handed it over the client “accidentally pulled the trigger causing the gun to go off,” killing him. The man “continued with the poem stating he wrapped his friend up in the carpet or rug and placed him in the trunk of a vehicle.”
After the session ended, the client asked the social worker what part of the conversation is covered under HIPAA, the federal health privacy law, before telling the social worker “that the poem was about his dog.”
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