Patient Takes Nurses Hostage at Nursing Facility
Officers responded to a nursing facility after a report that a patient was holding two nurses hostage in the medicine room. They said the man did not have any weapons.
The Sheriff’s Office dispatched a hostage negotiator and entered the facility, taking custody of the man. Medical personnel said he was having a psychiatric crisis and did not want to file a police report.
An ambulance transported him to SOMC for evaluation.
Man Life-Flighted After Falling Off Ladder in Wheelerburg
A man was taken to the hospital by air ambulance after falling off a ladder in Wheelersburg just after 2 pm.
When medics arrived on the scene, they sent for an air ambulance. A landing zone was set up near the old ball field on Dogwood Ridge, and an ambulance transported the man to meet the chopper.
An air ambulance flew him to a Huntington hospital.