Male Nurse Shot During Struggle With Patient On MLK Medical Campus

WILLOWBROOK (CBSLA.com) — A hospital employee was shot and injured Monday in South Los Angeles.

Officials responded around 12:15 p.m. to the Mental Health Urgent Care center, which is an urgent care facility on the MLK Medical Campus in the 12000 block of South Wilmington Avenue.

A man in his 20s had been brought in for treatment by his family when he became agitated and shot a male nurse, KNX 1070’s Claudia Peschiutta reports.

The patient was then detained by hospital security guards, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department authorities said.

The victim, who was transported a trauma center with a gunshot wound to his thigh, was expected to survive, Peschiutta reported.