COLONIAL HEIGHTS – The night nurse who prosecutors said was “the last hands” on a nursing-home patient before she became ill and died was granted bond Tuesday morning and told to stay away completely from nursing care, the nursing home or any of the other 17 defendants in the case.
Shakima Freeman Brewer, of Richmond, is one of four defendants jailed on the most serious of all charges, abuse of a vulnerable adult resulting in death, and the second of them to be granted bond. General District Judge Matthew Nelson set the unsecured bond at $5,000 and ordered Brewer to take part in pre-trial services including alcohol and drug screening.
As of publication time, online court records indicated Brewer had not yet been released from Riverside Regional Jail in Prince George County. She was not physically in court but took part in the hearing via teleconference from the jail…