A man who walked into a hospital in Los Angeles Friday night seeking help for extreme anxiety stabbed a doctor and two nurses before locking himself into a room at the hospital for four hours before being taken into custody by police, the Associated Press reports.
The hospital staff moved all the patients out of range of the man, meaning arm’s length because he only had one knife and not a gun that can kill people yards away. The three people the disturbed man wounded were all hospitalized in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries. No one had to plan any funerals because the mentally ill patient only had a knife.