NYC hospital on lockdown after unhinged man shot by cops in disturbing incident

A bloodied, blade-wielding patient at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital was shot and killed by cops Thursday night after he barricaded himself in a room with an elderly patient and a staffer — sending the Park Slope medical center into lockdown, according to cops.

Police rushed to the hospital after receiving multiple 911 calls just before 5:30 p.m. about a man who barricaded himself inside an eighth-floor hospital room with an elderly patient and a member of the hospital security staff, Charles Minch, Assistant Chief and Commanding Officer of patrol borough Brooklyn South, said at a press conference late Thursday.

The madman was wielding a sharp, broken piece of a toilet seat and was using it to cut himself and had tried to cut other people, leaving the whole room covered in blood, according to sources and cops.

He had also threatened to kill the hospital security staffer, police said…

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