NEW YORK – A paramedic was stabbed multiple times by an emotionally disturbed man she was trying to help inside an ambulance in Manhattan on Wednesday night, police said.
The attack happened on the Upper West Side around 9 pm, a short distance from Mt. Sinai Hospital. Law enforcement sources say the ambulance was parked near West 59th Street and 9th Avenue when the man suddenly pulled out a knife and stabbed the EMS worker multiple times.
Police sources said the woman was stabbed once in the stomach and twice in the left leg. Other paramedics rushed to her aid and took the victim to another trauma center.
Police and witnesses describe the man, 48, as emotionally disturbed. He was quickly taken into police custody, according to authorities.
2023-07-20 11:49:32
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