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Trinitas Hospital Staff Hides From Man Threatening with Knife Inside Emergency Room

Elizabeth

By: RLS Media Staff 

Police in Elizabeth are investigating an assault incident that happened at a hospital in the city Saturday night. 

According to a preliminary investigation, police received reports of an emotionally distraught man inside the Trinitas Hospital Emergency Room who threatened several workers with a knife around 9:50 p.m. 

Several employees reportedly took cover from the threatening male inside a bathroom at the hospital while they notified the police. 

The unidentified individual was taken into custody without incident while several police officers cleared the scene a short time after arriving at the hospital. 

There were no physical injuries immediately rpeorted. 

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