An emergency room at a Los Angeles hospital was evacuated early Wednesday after a woman armed with a knife allegedly assaulted a security officer and barricaded herself inside a bathroom.
Police received a 911 call around 1:15 a.m. reporting that a woman with a pocket knife had attacked the officer at Mission Community Hospital on Roscoe Boulevard in Panorama City.
After the assault, the suspect locked herself inside a women’s restroom, prompting hospital officials to relocate emergency room patients and staff to another floor, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson confirmed.
Officers said the woman refused to comply with commands as she remained barricaded inside the bathroom. Video from the scene showed armored SWAT vehicles arriving at the hospital as the standoff continued for several hours…