By Pauline Repard
The San Diego Union-Tribune
SAN DIEGO — Police used a Taser to subdue a hospital patient who grabbed an oxygen tank and used it to smash several windows of an ambulance early Thursday.
Staff at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Mission Hills then treated the man before he was taken to jail, San Diego police said.
Hospital officials called police about 3:30 a.m. for helping breaking up a fight in the waiting room between security guards and one or two men who had refused to leave when asked, police Officer Travis Easter said.
One man described as a patient swung the oxygen tank around and then, outside the emergency room, bashed in an ambulance windshield and back window, and broke an outside mirror. Officers shot him with a Taser and got him handcuffed.
The 30-year-old man was treated at the hospital, then booked into jail on four counts of assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism, making threats, and resisting officers. His bail was set at $185,000.
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