A knife-wielding psychiatric patient fatally stabbed one man and wounded another inside a Las Vegas hospital Thursday, according to police.
The stabbings occurred in a secured area where psychiatric patients are treated at University Medical Center, said Lt. Jason Johansson, a spokesperson for Las Vegas Metropolitan Police.The suspect's name wasn't immediately released by police and neither were the identities of the two stabbing victims, both men in their 20s.
Johansson said the suspect left his room early Thursday morning, went to an adjacent one and got into an argument with the first patient, who was in soft restraints when he was attacked and fatally stabbed."That victim thankfully was able to get up and flee towards the exit doors to that area of the hospital along with a charge nurse who was in that area," Johansson said.
He said corrections officers happened to be at the hospital at the time on an unrelated assignment and they took the suspect into custody without incident. Johansson said the stabbings occurred in an area where psychiatric patients receive treatment and may be held involuntarily under a process known as Legal 2000.
Authorities said people are placed on a Legal 2000 hold when they are considered a danger to themselves or others, and they can be held for up to 72 hours of psychiatric observation.
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