UPMC assault suspect found guilty
Lloyd convicted on all charges for attack on ER technician
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HOLLIDAYSBURG -- The Tyrone man who left a UPMC Altoona ER technician with a fractured skull and brain bleed was convicted on all charges following the conclusion of his two-day trial Wednesday morning.
A jury of four women and seven men deliberated about 20 minutes before finding Bradley Scott Lloyd, 41, guilty on three felony counts of aggravated assault and single misdemeanor counts of simple assault and disorderly conduct for attacking Travis Dunn, who was acting as Lloyd's safety sitter, on Nov. 1, 2025. Lloyd was remanded to the Blair County Prison to await sentencing on Oct. 22.
Before the trial reconvened Wednesday, Assistant District Attorney Nicholas Mays made a motion to combine the single misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct - engage in fighting and disorderly conduct - physical offense into one count with both subsections. Mays said combining the counts would be in line with the merger doctrine, which states that "if a defendant commits a single act that simultaneously fulfills the definition of two separate offenses, merger will occur."
Chief Public Defender Julia Burke did not object to the motion and it was granted by presiding President Judge Wade A. Kagarise.
Once the jury was brought into the courtroom, the defense and prosecution began their closing arguments.
Burke reminded the jury of the case's "basic facts," saying Lloyd felt unwell enough to go to the hospital, where emergency department staff agreed he needed treatment, admitted him and then did not allow him to leave.
She said the prosecution would ask the jury to find criminal intent in Lloyd's actions and that he consciously disregarded the risks punching another individual in the head would cause.
"I ask you to find that doubt and find Mr. Lloyd not guilty," Burke said.
Mays started his closing arguments by describing the case against Lloyd as "easy" and "straightforward."
"This is serious bodily injury and it's not even close," Mays said after replaying surveillance footage of the attack.
He reminded the jury of Dunn's injuries and how they would affect him for the rest of his life, adding that if Lloyd wanted to leave the hospital "so badly" he could have pushed Dunn out of the way.
"(Lloyd) had rage," Mays said. "He had intent. He wanted to hurt Travis Dunn."
He told the jury that Burke's arguments were "just excuses" for Lloyd's actions.
"You cannot beat a man because you have issues with a company or your medical treatment," Mays said.
Once the verdict was read and the jury left the courtroom, Burke asked for a pre-sentence investigation to be conducted ahead of Lloyd's sentencing.
During the trial, Dunn took the stand to detail the aftermath of Lloyd's attack, telling the jury he had a "missing chunk of time" from when the assault occurred. Through questioning by Mays, Dunn described feeling "panic, pain and confusion" upon regaining consciousness following the attack.
"My next memory is waking up and seeing my colleagues looking down at me," Dunn said. "I couldn't move my head, I couldn't move my body because I was on a body board."
After being assessed in the department's trauma bay, Dunn was flown by helicopter to UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, where he underwent emergency neurosurgery. He spent the next three days in the hospital, with the following month spent traveling back and forth between Altoona and Pittsburgh for follow-up appointments.
When asked by Mays if he suffered any lasting effects from the attack, Dunn said he had "memory issues off the bat," slight speech issues, daily pain, "headaches unlike anything else" and PTSD.
Dunn then confirmed during his testimony that he had filed a lawsuit against UPMC seeking monetary damages for the harm he suffered as a result of UPMC's conduct, but was unable to provide details.
The jury also heard from Michael Lang, the neurosurgeon who treated Dunn in Pittsburgh. Lang said Dunn "seemed to have multiple traumas to the head," a depressed skull fracture and multiple "critical" hemorrhages in his brain.
Lang said there were fragments of skull "pressed in on" Dunn's brain and that he performed a craniotomy to relieve pressure.
"This fracture can't heal without surgery or a permanent deformity of the skull," Lang said.
Lloyd decided against taking the stand in his own defense. He has been imprisoned at the Blair County Prison with bail denied since his arrest.
Mirror Staff Writer Rachel Foor-Musselman is at 814-946-7458.