{"id":308293,"date":"2026-10-16T23:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308293\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:06:07","slug":"st-lukes-bethlehem-patient-barricaded-himself-in-er-room-attempted-to-harm-staff-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308293\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Luke\u2019s Bethlehem patient barricaded himself in ER room, attempted to harm staff | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; A patient barricaded himself in an emergency room and tried to harm staff members at St. Luke\u2019s Bethlehem on Friday afternoon, Fountain Hill police say.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, a male patient barricaded himself in an emergency room, fashioned a makeshift weapon out of a controller used to call hospital staff, and tried to harm staff members.<\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh County Emergency Response Team responded and confirmed there were no injuries on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Fountain Hill Police Chief would like to thank the Lehigh County Emergency Response Team, Salisbury PD, and Bethlehem PD for their quick and safe response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; A patient barricaded himself in an emergency room and tried to harm staff members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,433],"class_list":["post-308293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}