#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

A Boston Medical Center employee suffered life-threatening injuries after he was stabbed early Wednesday morning by a Roxbury man who is now facing assault charges, authorities said. At about 2 a.m., Boston police responded to the center's campus and discovered that a public safety officer had been stabbed in his right leg by a man visiting a patient, according to a police report.

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."