#hospital-violence

#hospital-violence

The New York Police Department (NYPD) on Thursday said officers responded to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital shortly before 5:30 p.m. after they received multiple reports about a violent man who was armed with a sharp weapon inside the hospital. The man, later identified as Lynch, was a patient at the hospital. He was admitted on Wednesday, police said. NYPD Assistant Chief Charlie Minch said callers told dispatchers that the man

Tortolero Arriechi, 34, was known to hospital staff and a regular patient at Ward 86, the hospital's HIV clinic, where the stabbing took place, according to an eyewitness to the stabbing. He was allegedly a known and feared presence at the clinic. "This could have been avoided on so many fucking levels," the eyewitness told Mission Local. "We knew three weeks ago about this patient."