By Hatzel Vela
ABC15
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Phoenix residents were on edge for hours Thursday after a mental health patient went missing in their neighborhood.
A chopper kept circling the Willo Historic District telling residents to go back inside their homes because police dogs were searching for man.
Police said shortly after 5 p.m., a patient who was being transported from a mental health facility on 2nd Street and Roosevelt slipped out of his restraints, fought with emergency crews and then ran into the neighborhood.
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