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Healthcare Security Weekly, February 25, 2008
Two police officers who shot and killed a distraught man who threatened to detonate a hand grenade just outside Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis, PA, were cleared of charges.
An Orange County grand jury on February 7 cleared the two Port Jervis police officers who fatally shot the 65-year-old man on December 14, reported the Middletown Times Herald-Record. While the grenade turned out to be inert, police did not know that until it was removed from the scene and destroyed by a state police bomb squad.
The man with the grenade was a decorated Vietnam veteran who had been hospitalized for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, the newspaper reported. The officers each fired a single shot. The Port Jervis police chief praised the police response to the situation, as well as two hospital security guards who acted quickly that day to secure the facility.
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