Woman said found uncle's body in assisted living facility where he'd been dead for 'days'

A woman in Arizona said she was horrified last week when she walked into the assisted living facility where she had moved her elderly uncle, only to find his "hollowed out" corpse in a chair inside his room.

Angela Boorn said authorities later confirmed in an interview with Phoenix CBS affiliate KPHO that her uncle, 75-year-old Gerald McClellan, had been dead inside the West Valley assisted living facility for at least three or four days. The facility, LifeStream at Sun City, is located about 16 miles northwest of Phoenix.

Boorn, who told the station that her uncle was like a second father to her, said she was devastated to learn that McClellan had not been attended to for multiple days, leaving her to find his body.

"It looked like a skeleton in a chair," Boorn said of finding McClella