For 55-year-old Cynthia Vann, Lincoln Hospital was supposed to be a place of healing. But the sanctuary of her hospital room was brutally violated when she was attacked in her sleep , allegedly by a roommate her family says had a known history of violence.
Now, instead of planning for what would have been her 56th birthday, her family is mourning a death that has been ruled a homicide and demanding answers about how a place of care could become the scene of such horrific violence.
