Man held for firing air gun, hitting patient at hospital
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A man has been detained for firing an air gun inside a hospital in east China’s Zhejiang Province, police said.
The 38-year-old suspect, surnamed Liang, went to Haiyan People’s Hospital about 11:30am yesterday complaining of tightness in his chest, police said.
As he was being seen by a doctor, he became manic, took out an air gun and fired two shots at the ceiling, then hit a fellow patient, surnamed Xu, in the head with the weapon, police said.
Xu suffered bruises and lacerations to his face, they said, adding that a full investigation is under way.
A doctor at the hospital was quoted by pharmaceutical website dxy.cn as saying there was a dispute between Liang and a medic before the attack.
The unnamed doctor also claimed Liang had a “bad record,” the website said.
Apparently, Liang had spent time in hospital for broken bones, but would never let anyone else inside his ward and would leave the unit to go to bars at night, the website said.
One night, he fell over on his way back from a bar and demanded compensation, it said. The hospital paid him several thousand yuan.
Liang was later diagnosed as having a mental illness and was sent for tests, the website said.
Hospital violence has increased in China in recent years.
In 2013, a man was sentenced to life imprisonment after stabbing a nurse to death and injuring four others after becoming suspicious about the way he was being treated.
In 2012, another man was sentenced to life imprisonment for slitting the throat of a doctor and slashing three others at a hospital in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang Province. He said he carried out the attack as revenge for bad treatment at the hospital.
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