Man Arrested After Emergency Room Threats

REDDING, Calif. (AP) -- A Northern California man is facing charges after police say he brought a gun into a hospital emergency room and threatened to start shooting if he didn't get faster attention for treatment he was seeking.

Police arrested Jesse Whitlow after the incident at Mercy Medical Center in Redding around 4:30 p.m. Saturday.

Redding police Corporal Les James says officers responding to the hospital found a loaded .22 caliber handgun in Whitlow's car and ammunition in his pants pocket.

The 24-year-old Anderson man was booked on suspicion of possessing a concealed, loaded weapon, of being an ex-felon possessing a firearm and ammunition, and of resisting arrest.

Whitlow was being held in lieu of $25,000 bail at the Shasta County Jail. Police did not know if he had hired an attorney.

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