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Police: Nurse Stabbed While Trying To Stop Woman From Stabbing Sick Father

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A nurse at Jefferson Hospital was stabbed while trying to break up a domestic incident on Saturday night.

Authorities were called to the hospital on 11th Street, around 7 p.m.

Police say a 42-year-old male nurse was stabbed once in the leg while attempting to stop a woman from stabbing her sick father.

The nurse is in stable condition and the woman's 55-year-old father suffered a gash to the head from a soda can, say police.

The woman was apprehended.

 

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