Woman in her 50s arrested for 'Severance Hospital knife attack'... Court "Concerns about running away" (comprehensive)

심사 전 출석하며 "정신과에서 당뇨 만들었다, 마루타로 만들었다" 횡설수설

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Minhyuk Yoon = A woman in her 50s who brandished a weapon at a psychiatrist at Severance Hospital in Sinchon was arrested.

On the afternoon of the 7th, Chief Judge Park Seok-geun of the Seoul Western District Court held a pre-arrest interrogation (warrant substantive examination) of A, a woman in her 50s suspected of attempted murder, and issued a warrant, saying, "There is concern that she may run away."

Mr. A is accused of injuring the face and hands of Professor Kang of the Department of Psychiatry by swinging a weapon he had in the treatment room on the 5th floor of Sinchon Severance Hospital at around 4:35 pm on the 4th.

At 2:13 p.m. on this day, Mr. A, who entered the court to attend the review, was asked by reporters, 'Why did you swing a weapon at the doctor?' and rambling, saying, "In 2018, Yonsei University Psychiatry Department did not provide internal medical treatment and caused diabetes."

He then shouted, “Yonsei University made him a criminal,” and “It ended his life, broke his family, and made him a maruta.”

He did not answer the question, ‘Do you feel sorry for the victim?’

At the time of the crime, Professor Kang, the victim, called a patient other than Mr. A to the clinic, and it is known that Mr. A followed the called patient into the clinic and took out a weapon and brandished it.

Professor Kang suffered a stab wound about 5 cm long and was taken to the emergency room for treatment. It was confirmed that there was no life-threatening injury.

Initially, the Seodaemun Police Station arrested Mr. A on charges of special injury, but based on the fact that Mr. A stated that he had put a kitchen knife that he used at home in a shopping bag, they considered that there was intent to commit murder at the time of the crime and charged him with attempted murder.

During the police investigation, Mr. A was found to have said about the motive for the crime, "I tried to go to another hospital, but I was angry because the doctor at Severance Hospital teamed up with another hospital and prevented me from going for treatment (to another hospital)."