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Patient at Indiana hospital charged in weekend attack
Updated: Friday, 21 Sep 2012, 1:34 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 21 Sep 2012, 1:34 PM EDT
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - A man who was a patient at a Fort Wayne hospital is accused of punching a security guard and threatening him with a knife.
Forty-year-old Michael Fairburn of Fort Wayne was charged Thursday with felony criminal recklessness and misdemeanor battery in the weekend attack at Lutheran Hospital. He was being held Friday at the Allen County Jail on $3,250 bail.
Court documents say Fairburn was being treated Sunday at the hospital when a security guard was called to Fairburn's room and found the patient holding a knife.
The Journal Gazette reports a witness told police Fairburn pointed the knife at the guard and also punched him.
Court records say Fairburn admitted punching the guard but denied trying to cut him.
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