OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – A knife-wielding patient attacked emergency room staff at a hospital in northwest Oklahoma City, severely injuring a security guard, biting one nurse and slicing another, police said Tuesday.
Sgt. Jennifer Wardlow said the 50-year-old guard, Anthony Cantrell, was severely cut on the side of his neck.
Cantrell has been hospitalized in stable condition, according to hospital spokeswoman Emily Kezbers.
Police arrested Keith Bain, 58, of Valliant after the attack late Monday. Bain was being held at the Oklahoma County jail pending formal charges for assault and battery with a deadly weapon and malicious injury and destruction of property.
Wardlow said police were called to Deaconess Hospital shortly before midnight Monday. She said the man had gone to the emergency room seeking medical treatment.