Suspect Identified and Arrested in Third Presbyterian Hospital Attack
Police say LeJarris Williams attacked a woman inside Presbyterian's Orthopaedic hospital parking garage around 4pm Tuesday afternoon. They say Williams held her at gunpoint inside an elevator inside the garage, and stole her purse. Meredith Beam is a nurse at the hopsital. She says she keeps her eyes and ears open as she walks to her car. Beam says, "It makes me a little more nervous in the parking decks, because anyone could hide anywhere." Police say the suspect attacked the victim, then fled on foot. Hospital security chased the suspect down the street, struggled with him, got him on the ground, and then in custody on Vail Avenue. Joanie Mashburn lives on the opposite corner from where hospital security caught the man. Mashburn says, "I'll feel better if they determine he's the one who has been doing the prior incidents." Back on June 27th, Someone stabbed a nurse leaving work around 2am as she walked to her car in a parking lot. Later that same day, a man assaulted another hospital employee. She said it happened inside a parking garage stairwell. These attacks, have Mashburn concerned. Mashburn says, "When they happen in the hospital parking lot, they are targeted at women, which makes everyone on this street concerned." |
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