Cops: Patient Fatally Attacked At Interfaith Hospital In Brooklyn
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Police are investigating the death of a patient in the psychiatric ward of a Brooklyn hospital.
Police were called to the Interfaith Hospital shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday.
Responding officers found the 47-year-old victim unconscious and unresponsive with blunt force trauma to the upper torso and head, police said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Another patient, a 20-year-old man, has been identified by police as a person of interest and is being questioned, 1010 WINS reported. He was taken to Kings County Hospital for observation.