Person flees after altercation at hospital ER, Grinnell IA


A person physically fought with another at a hospital emergency room. After the fight, the person ran away on foot. The situation started when a mother brought her son to the ER for medical and mental health checks after a car accident.
Audio|Source: Poweshiek County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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She is still at the hospital.
00:02
Okay. I just met with security, and they're not even sure he was considered a patient yet, so I don't know if all this just took place in the waiting room, and he hadn't even made it back yet or what was going on.
00:15
The way mom explained it to me, she was a little bit hysterical and said that she was bringing her son to the ER to get checked out because he was in a motor vehicle accident on Hyundai.
00:29
She wanted to be checked out on that and also have a mental eval done on him.
00:34
They got into it and he took off on foot down the ramp to the west.
00:41
Stand for.
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Utah County.
00:45
Goffrey County.
00:46
We did have a ER nurse call in also and kind of tell us that there was a physical altercation at the ER.
00:57
Mel was doing nothing wrong by trying to leave the ER.
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Grinnell, IA 50112
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