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NYC hospital on lockdown after cops fatally shoot bloodied patient who fashioned weapon from broken toilet seat
nypost.com ^ | Jan. 8, 2026 | Joe Marino, Marie Pohl, Zoe Hussain and Ben Clerkin

Posted on 01/09/2026 5:56:48 AM PST by V_TWIN

A bloodied, blade-wielding patient at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital was shot and killed by cops Thursday night after he barricaded himself in a room with an elderly patient and a staffer — sending the Park Slope medical center into lockdown, according to cops.

Police rushed to the hospital after receiving multiple 911 calls just before 5:30 p.m. about a man who barricaded himself inside an eighth-floor hospital room with an elderly patient and a member of the hospital security staff, Charles Minch, Assistant Chief and Commanding Officer of patrol borough Brooklyn South, said at a press conference late Thursday.

The madman was wielding a sharp, broken piece of a toilet seat and was using it to cut himself and had tried to cut other people, leaving the whole room covered in blood, according to sources and cops.

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Well, I give him points for resourcefulness anyway.

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1 posted on 01/09/2026 5:56:48 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Well, we can presume that the perp obviously voted (or would have voted had he been able to read) for the “Party of Inevitable Failure”.


2 posted on 01/09/2026 5:59:49 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: V_TWIN

Not very a’commode-ating


3 posted on 01/09/2026 6:00:42 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: V_TWIN

No social workers on call? Not even in a hospital? Mamdani is hitting the wall pretty fast.


4 posted on 01/09/2026 6:00:45 AM PST by sphinx
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To: V_TWIN

Not immediately clear why he was hospitalized my backside...


5 posted on 01/09/2026 6:03:01 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: V_TWIN

If the bullets didn’t get him the wicked infection from the toilet seat surely would have.

Imagine how scared the patient was to have this psycho in the room.


6 posted on 01/09/2026 6:03:37 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: Sirius Lee

Well played !


7 posted on 01/09/2026 6:05:00 AM PST by Mopp4 ("It is a cruel world, Herr Hauptman. You said it yourself.")
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To: V_TWIN

The police attempt at quelling the madman remind me of a keystone cop comedy.


8 posted on 01/09/2026 6:09:12 AM PST by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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To: V_TWIN

Never bring a toilet seat to a gun battle, Son!


9 posted on 01/09/2026 6:15:33 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: V_TWIN
...wielding a sharp, broken piece of a toilet seat...

Hence no toilet seats in prisons.

The perp may have a "tactical" toilet seat at home.



10 posted on 01/09/2026 6:17:10 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: V_TWIN

When it comes to conceiving ‘fashioned’ weapons... I can think of a lot of materials you can make a shive or shank from... The last thing that comes to mind is a broken toilet seat.


11 posted on 01/09/2026 6:19:53 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Say that’s a good idea for a democrat hacks face on the seat instruction people how to eat s**t.


12 posted on 01/09/2026 6:23:47 AM PST by Vaduz (?.)
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To: Sirius Lee

Clapping. Would NEVER have thought of that one.


13 posted on 01/09/2026 6:27:43 AM PST by mairdie
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To: V_TWIN

It’s great to see law enforcement fighting (shooting) back against the far-left knuckledraggers.


14 posted on 01/09/2026 6:28:09 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Run your Honda dinghy into ICE and you face the same consequences as the Titanic.)
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To: jerod

Some flint knappers use porcelain from broken toilet bowls, tanks and tank lids to make arrowheads and other projectile points. They call it Johnstone or Thunderstone. No BS.


15 posted on 01/09/2026 6:37:55 AM PST by KingLudd
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To: Sirius Lee

“Here I sit, broken-hearted....”


16 posted on 01/09/2026 6:39:45 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Sirius Lee

Perp never got to the seat of his problems....
I’m glad the patient survived....but what did the hospital security staff member do? Was that person just a “legal observer”?


17 posted on 01/09/2026 7:04:01 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: KingLudd

What is a flint kidnapper.


18 posted on 01/09/2026 7:10:51 AM PST by RWGinger
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To: V_TWIN

Why didn’t Madmani, sorry, Mamdani, send in the social workers to resolve the situation?


19 posted on 01/09/2026 7:12:45 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: jerod

“conceiving ‘fashioned’ weapons”

Before spending 5 years in my church’s prison ministry I had to go through orientation.

Part of that was, we were shown a display of weapons that had been confiscated in the DOC.

Inmates are very resourceful.

For instance, one such weapon was a rolled up newspaper that had been fashioned into a spear and hardened somehow.

That thing would no doubt run someone completely through.


20 posted on 01/09/2026 7:15:32 AM PST by V_TWIN (America........so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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