A Montgomery County, Ohio, inmate seized a sheriff deputy's firearm while receiving treatment at Kettering Health Dayton (Ohio) and fled the hospital on Jan. 26.
While no Kettering Health employees or patients were injured during the incident, one round was fired inside the hospital. The Dayton Police Department quickly located the suspect in a house and heard a gunshot come from within it, the Dayton Daily News reported Jan. 26.
The suspect was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to a Jan. 26 Montgomery County Sheriff's Department news release shared with Becker's.
Emergency medical personnel were dispatched to provide the inmate medical attention, where he was pronounced dead by hospital personnel.
The deputy who was assaulted did not sustain life-threatening injuries.