{"id":308782,"date":"2026-10-17T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308782\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:36:09","slug":"police-patient-barricaded-himself-in-er-and-attempted-to-harm-staff-at-st-lukes-bethlehem-in-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308782\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: patient barricaded himself in ER and attempted to harm staff at St. Luke&#8217;s Bethlehem in Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police: patient barricaded himself in ER and attempted to harm staff<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792251369_21_16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, October 17, 2026 2:54PM<\/p>\n<p>Follow 6abc on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FOUNTAIN HILL, P.A. (WPVI) &#8212; Dramatic moments in Lehigh County after a patient barricaded himself in an emergency room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to police, he tried to harm staff members at St. Luke&#8217;s Bethlehem, in Fountain Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He reportedly fashioned a makeshift weapon out of a controller used to call hospital staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Lehigh County Emergency Response Team was able to diffuse the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">A hospital spokesperson says it was a &#8220;Behavioral Health Incident,&#8221; and there was never any danger to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police: patient barricaded himself in ER and attempted to harm staff Saturday, October 17, 2026 2:54PM Follow 6abc&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[126495,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-308782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-126495","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308782","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=308782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}