Police: War flashback seen as cause of incident
Police lights (file photo)
Posted: 01/05/2013
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By: Associated Press
HARRODSBURG, Ky. - Police in a central Kentucky town say a 92-year-old man held a hospital nursing assistant at knifepoint for a brief time while apparently having a war flashback. The man was disarmed by police and arrested.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reports Dewitt Sims, a World War II veteran, was charged with two counts of first-degree wanton endangerment.
Harrodsburg police Officer Brian Hislope says Sims apparently was having a flashback Thursday at James B. Haggin Memorial Hospital and believed he was under threat from enemies. Sims was a patient at the Harrodsburg hospital.
Hislope says several officers rushed to a patient room, where they found Sims holding a pocket knife to the nurse's throat.
Police say the nurse was uninjured; her name was not released.
Sims was being held in the Boyle County Detention Center.
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