Stand-Off at Hospital With Armed Prisoner
Police swarmed to the fourth floor of White Memorial Hospital in Boyle Heights on Tuesday night after a federal prisoner being treated there somehow acquired a gun, investigators said.
The prisoner, Robert McCallahan, was wearing leg restraints when he acquired the loaded, 9-millimeter pistol, police said. They said McCallahan took refuge in a room, and the remainder of the floor was evacuated.
Officers said the prisoner, who was threatening to commit suicide, did not appear to be holding hostages.
There were conflicting reports on how McCallahan got the gun. One version had a confederate slipping him the weapon; another had McCallahan wrenching it away from a private guard who was escorting him.
It was not immediately known why McCallahan is a prisoner or why he was taken to the hospital for treatment.
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