ROCKVILLE CENTRE, Long Island (WABC) -- The family of a hospital security guard on Long Island is pleading for answers, and change, after he was beaten by a patient so badly, he's now on life support.

The wife of 63-year-old Gardy Coriolan spoke exclusively to Eyewitness News.

"My husband gave his entire life to law enforcement and saving people and serving the community," said the wife of the victim, Sonya Coriolan. "He belonged to someone. He belonged to us."

The wife and daughters of 63-year-old Gardy Coriolan were at his side at Mercy Hospital on Monday night, where he worked for 28 years as a hospital police officer, and where last Wednesday he was attacked.

"He was defending someone else, coming to someone else's aid, like he often did," Sonya Coriolan said.

When a patient in t

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