Quick ban the knives! Sue the knife manufacturer!
A patient, whom police identified as Ashkan Amirsoleymani, 35, was taken into custody Friday night on suspicion of stabbing two nurses and a doctor.
www.yahoo.com
From the article:
A tall man wearing a blue flannel shirt and holding a knife was calmly pacing around, he said. He entered a small room that appeared to be a storage area, and Saadat (the witness in the article) ran up behind him and closed the door, he said.
“A nurse came and helped me hold the door, and then a security guard came,” he said. “We asked them to hold the door closed.” The man did not try to push his way out but stood over a sink, possibly wiping his knife, he said.
“The guy wasn’t even reacting,” he said. “He was just standing in the room, his back toward the window of the door. I’m not really sure what he was doing. But it was definitely pretty creepy.”
A couple paragraphs later:
Officers then arrived, and Saadat directed them to the room in which the man was confined — the nurse and security guard were still holding the door shut, he said.
Saadat and others carried the doctor (one of the victims) out through the front of the hospital. Paramedics put her on a gurney and took her away, he said.
SWAT officers entered the hospital around 5:25 p.m., and Amirsoleymani was taken into custody after an hours-long standoff, police said. He was transported to a hospital for wounds to his arms that appeared to be self-inflicted, according to investigators.
My comments:
A fully-armed and armored SWAT TEAM arrived and NEGOTIATED FOR HOURS with a crazed perp who WAS TRAPPED IN A STORAGE ROOM, WITH NO HOSTAGES, WAS NOT TRYING TO ESCAPE AND WAS ARMED ONLY WITH A KNIFE. In addition, he was apparently removed from the hospital he was already in and, I'm guessing, transported to ANOTHER HOSPITAL for treatment of self inflicted wounds. Notice the article did not allow any comments