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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 13 september 2017
Patient slain inside hospital by relative, authorities say

woman. He said there were diately released.
no other injuries. John Kacavas, the medical
No possible motive for the center’s chief legal officer,
shooting was released. thanked police and the at-
An active shooter alert torney general’s office for
was issued after police re- their response to a “tragic
ceived a report of a shoot- situation.”People were told
ing inside an ICU on the to avoid the area around
fourth floor of one of the the hospital, and traffic was
buildings. stopped on a route lead-
Rhode Island State Police ing to the medical center.
said the suspect’s car had The Bureau of Alcohol, To-
Rhode Island plates so bacco, Firearms and Ex-
police in New Hampshire plosives and Vermont State
A suspect in an active shooter incident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock reached out to the state’s Police assisted New Hamp-
Medical Center was pulled from a grey Ford Escape at the in- Fusion Center, an informa- shire and local police.
tersection of LaHaye Drive and Mount Support Road in Lebanon, tion center under the com- WCAX-TV reported that an
N.H., on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. The Lebanon Department of mand of the state police employee said all workers
Public Safety confirmed that someone was taken into custody that also involves repre- received an email from the
shortly before 3 p.m. following reports of an active shooter at
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. sentatives from local, state hospital about a “code sil-
(Jennifer Hauck/The Valley News via AP) and federal agencies. ver,” telling them to get out
The center helped identify if possible and otherwise to
By MICHAEL CASEY Authorities said a person the suspect as a Rhode Is- shelter in place. “Code sil-
Associated Press was taken into custody land resident, said Laura ver” indicates that a violent
LEBANON, N.H. (AP) — A shortly before 3 p.m. while Meade Kirk, a state police situation is unfolding.
patient was shot to death trying to leave the grounds spokeswoman. The resi- The state attorney gener-
inside an intensive care unit of Dartmouth-Hitchcock dent’s name wasn’t imme- al’s office is investigating.q
Tuesday by a family mem- Medical Center in Leba-
ber, leading to a lockdown non.
at New Hampshire’s largest Attorney General Gordon
hospital, authorities said. MacDonald identified the
No one else was injured. victim as a 70-year-old

Defense:

Teen accused of stabbing

classmate was delusional

By GRETCHEN EHLKE were walking to meet Slen-
Associated Press der Man in a northern Wis-
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A consin forest. All three girls
Wisconsin girl who told in- were 12 years old at the
vestigators she helped time.
stab a classmate was con- “Anissa’s broken mind
vinced the crime would caused her to lose touch
protect her and her fam- with reality,” defense at-
ily from a horror character torney Joseph Smith told ju-
called Slender Man who rors. “Anissa was under the
she thought was real, her command and control of a
attorney told jurors Tues- delusional disorder.”
day. During his opening state-
The defense is trying to ments, Smith played por-
convince jurors that Anissa tions of a police interroga-
Weier was suffering from a tion of Weier shortly after
mental illness at the time of her arrest in which she de-
the stabbing at a Wauke- scribed a plot to kill Leutner
sha park in 2014 and there- in order to become a proxy
fore is not criminally respon- of Slender Man, whom she
sible. described as tall and face-
Payton Leutner was less with numerous tenta-
stabbed 19 times in a cles capable of killing her
plot by Weier and co- family in a matter of sec-
defendant Morgan Gey- onds.
ser and left in a wooded Weier, now 15, sat nearby
park where she eventually while the snippets of the in-
crawled for help after the terview were played on a
girls left, according to pros- large screen for jurors.
ecutors. A passing bicyclist Smith described Weier as
found Leutner. Weier and a loner who struggled to fit
Geyser were arrested lat- in with her peers and who
er that day and said they found a friend in Geyser. q