Security guard allegedly shoots and injures mentally ill man at hospital

The St Catherine North police are investigating an incident that left a mentally ill man shot and injured by a security guard at the Spanish Town Hospital last night.

Reports detail that about 10:30 p.m. both men were at the health facility when the mentally ill man allegedly attacked the guard.

The security guard reportedly took evasive action and the 54-year-old mentally ill man was shot and injured.

-Rasbert Turner

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