A firefighter paramedic was fatally stabbed in an ambulance. A patient is being charged.
A firefighter paramedic was fatally stabbed in an ambulance. A patient is being charged.
A paramedic has died after being stabbed by a patient in the back of an ambulance, according to officials.
Early Sunday morning, firefighter Graham Hoffman, 29, was in the back of an ambulance transporting a patient to the hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, when he was stabbed in the chest, piercing his heart, according to a press release published on the city's website.
Hoffman was taken to the intensive care unit at North Kansas City Hospital, but succumbed to his injuries.
"I am heartbroken by the loss of Firefighter Paramedic Graham Hoffman," the city's mayor, Quinton Lucas, said in a statement. "After praying for his recovery this morning with his family and colleagues, I join all Kansas Citians in mourning the loss of a heroic public servant.'
Hoffman had been a firefighter since 2022, according to the press release.
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What happened?
At 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, the Kansas City Police Department received reports regarding a woman, later identified as Shanetta Bossell, 38, walking on the highway, reported local news stations KCTV 5 and KSHB. Officers responding to the call requested EMS.
While EMS was preparing to transport Bossell, she is suspected of stabbing Hoffman in the heart with a knife.
Bossell was apprehended after the incident and later charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action.
A judge set her bond at $1 million, according to the news outlet.
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