Police decide to apply for arrest warrant for attempted murder of woman who stabbed Severance Hospital

The police plan to apply for an arrest warrant charging a woman in her 50s with attempted murder for brandishing a weapon against a psychiatry professor at Sinchon Severance Hospital.

According to Yonhap News coverage on the 5th, Seoul Seodaemun Police Station decided to apply for an arrest warrant for A, a woman in her 50s, to the Seoul Western District Public Prosecution Office on this day.

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

The doctor suffered a stab wound about 5 cm long and was taken to the emergency room for treatment, and it was confirmed that there was no life-threatening injury.

Immediately after the crime, hospital officials stopped Mr. A, and the police who arrived after receiving the report caught him at 4:42 p.m.

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

During the police investigation, Mr. A was found to have uttered gibberish about the motive for the crime, saying, "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 to get treatment (at another hospital)."

The police plan to confirm the authenticity of Mr. A's statement and investigate whether he has ever received treatment at Severance Hospital in the past.