Long Island NY March 4 2019 Armed security officers could patrol six Catholic Health Services hospitals across Long Island and NYU Winthrop Hospital in Mineola this year, joining armed officers deploying or already deployed at Stony Brook University Hospital and most of Northwell Health’s 13 LI hospitals, officials at the health systems said. Nationally and on […]
ORLANDO, Fla. Oct 2 2018 — Police officers in Florida on Monday fatally shot an unarmed patient they say told hospital emergency room workers that he had a gun and that “it was going to end right here today.” Orlando Police Chief John Mina said during a news conference that the man was taken to Orlando […]
VALHALLA, N.Y. Aug 9 2018 — A man shot a patient to death in her bed at a suburban New York hospital Wednesday and then killed himself, police said. Police were trying to determine the connection between the two, who were found in a fourth-floor room after gunfire rang out around 9:40 a.m. at Westchester Medical […]
BOISE ID May 31 2018 — A Garden City man was arrested Monday night after police say he assaulted both police and security personnel at a Boise medical facility. The incident happened at about 9 p.m. in the 300 block of Jefferson Street. Police say they were called out to the facility after 21-year-old Michael McNamar […]
BRIGHTON TWP. MI May 10 2018 — A patient at Heritage Valley Beaver hospital — initially accused of assaulting several security guards — now faces a homicide charge after one of the security officers has died. According to a police report, John E. Fletcher, 25, was a patient in the hospital’s psychiatric unit in December 2017 […]
LEXINGTON, S.C. April 28 2017— A public safety officer was injured following an incident at Lexington Medical Center, Thursday morning. According to hospital spokeswoman Jennifer Wilson, at 7:45 a.m. on April 27, a Lexington Medical Center Public Safety officer responded to a situation with a person in a car on the hospital campus. Following a […]