An elderly veteran with dementia was found dead inside a walk-in freezer at an assisted living facility after his daughter noticed he was missing from his room.

William Eugene Ray, an 83-year-old US Navy veteran and father of two, showed signs that his dementia was quickly progressing over the summer, so his daughter Kristen Spencer installed a Ring camera in his room at the Waverly Assisted Living and Memory Care in Trinity, Fla.

Through the camera, Spencer could keep an eye on her ailing father even when she wasn’t visiting. She watched as he grew more disoriented, but trusted that he was in good hands. 3

“You put your loved one in there with trust,” she told Fox 13 .

Ray’s family made the difficult decision to move him into assisted living in May so that he could receive a le

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