Police arrested and charged Juvane Raheem Hylton, 21, with one count of making a false report regarding placing a bomb or explosive device and one count of misusing police communications.
According to police arrest records obtained by the Miami Herald, Mr. Hylton told police a patient assigned to room 533 at the hospital asked him to help him make a call June 29. However, officials determined the patient assigned to the room was undergoing a medical procedure at the time the call was made, according to the report.
Mr. Hylton, a secretary at the hospital, reportedly called the police’s nonemergency phone line from the patient’s room and said he would shoot up the medical center’s west wing with an AR-15 and an AK-47, according to the police report.
Jackson Memorial was subsequently placed on lockdown, and police searched the 15-floor facility and adjacent grounds. No shots were fired that day, the report states.
The June 29 threat was one of two shooting threats the hospital received during a four-day time span and “caused pandemonium” at the facility, the Miami Herald reports. The second threat followed in the form of two emails sent to 7News July 2 before being forwarded to the police.
The July 2 threat is still under investigation.
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