5 hostages stabbed at Homestead mental health facility before police shoot suspect Police identify Dustin Johnson, 38, as suspect in knife attack at Turtle Creek Valley Mental Health offices Share Shares Copy Link Copy

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WEBVTT SUSPECT. KELLY? REPORTER: THAT REAL -- SHE SAYS SHE KNOWS HIM AS A FORMER PATIENT, SAYS SHE ALWAYS LIKED HIM. AND IT WASN'T UNCOMMON FOR PATIENTS TO STOP IN AND SAY HELLO. SHE THOUGHT THAT'S WHAT HE WAS DOING TODAY, BUT WITHIN SECONDS OF HIM STEPPING OFF THAT ELEVATOR HE ALLEGEDLY STARTED TO ATTACK. >> OH MY GOD, ARE YOU OKAY? REPORTER: AFTER HIDING UNDER HER DESK FOR 75 MINUTES, TEXTING HER FAMILY, SHE FINALLY MADE IT OUT. >> HE WAS JUST TALKING TO US NORMALLY, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HE JUST PULLED A GUN OUT AND HE SAID I'M NOT GOING TO HURT YOU, BUT MY FIRST INSTINCT WAS TO HIDE, AND I HID UNDER A DESK AND FROM THAT POINT ON HE BEGAN ASSAULTING MY COWORKERS. REPORTER: SHE'S A RESIDENT ADVISOR AT TRURT EL CREEK VALLEY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, AT THE OLD HOMESTEAD HOSPITAL. SHE SAYS WHEN DUSTIN JOHNSON STARTED STABBING HER COWORKERS, HE YELLED ONE THING OVER AND OVER. >> E RUINED MY LIFE, YOU RUINED MY LIFE. >> THEY HAD NO WAY TO ESCAPE. >> PLEASE DON'T HURT ME, DON'T KILL ME. THEY WERE SCARED FOR THEIR LIFE. REPORTER: WHILE JOHNSON IS SOMEONE THE STAFF KNEW, THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT SPARKED HIM TO CARRY OUT THIS ATTACK. >> I DON'T KNOW WHY HE DID IT. HE HASN'T BEEN A PATIENT OFOUS FOR A NUMBER OF WEEKS, SO THIS WAS VERY SURPRISING. >> A QUICK CORRECTION TO THAT PIECE, COUNTY POLICE ISSUED A STATEMENT LATE TONIGHT SAYING THAT IT WASN'T SIX PEOPLE WHO WERE STABBED BUT IT WAS FIVE PEOPLE WHO WERE STABBED AND YOUR CURRENTLY RECOVERING. THE SUSPECT WAS SHOT BY POLICE, HE HAD SURGERY TONIGHT AND RIGHT NOW IS IN THE I.C.U. COUNTY POLICE HERE ARE PREPARING CHARGES AGAINST HIM. THEY SAY THOSE WILL INCLUDE FIVE COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, FIVE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE, ATTEMPTED ARSON, AND RISKING A CATASTROPHE. LIVE IN POINT BREEZE, KELLY BRENNAN. JACKIE: ALL FIVE VICTIMS SURVIVED THE ATTACK, THOUGH FOR SOME THE HEALING PROCESS COULD BE LONG ASK PAINFUL. MIKE C.: REPORTER BEAU BERMAN CONTINUES OUR TEAM COVERAGE FROM MERCY MOP WHERE AT LEAST ONE WOMAN IS BEGINNING THE LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY. REPORTER: YES, THAT'S CORRECT. AT LEAST ONE OF THE VICTIMS IS BEING TREATED HERE AT UPMC MERCY. WE GOT AN UPDATE TONIGHT THAT THERE WERE A TOTAL OF FIVE STABBING VICTIMS. HERE ARE THEIR OFFICIAL CONDITIONS, ONE VICTIM IS A RESIDENT WHO WAS STABBED IN THE NECK AND IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. ANOTHER RESIDENT WAS STABBED IN THE NECK AND CHEST WHO IS IN STABLE NOW. AN EMPLOYEE IS IN STABLE AFTER BEING STABBED IN THE HEAD AND NECK. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE STABBED TWICE IN THE BACK IS STABLE NOW. AND A FINAL EMPLOYEE STABBED IN THE FACE AND NECK IS IN STABLE CONDITION TONIGHT. 27-YEAR-OLD HEATHER PARILLA HAS WORKED HERE FOR LESS THAN A YEAR. TODAY EASILY HER WORST DAY THERE. >> SHE WAS SCARED. TERRIBLY SCARED AND SHE JUST WANTED MY HUSBAND TO KNOW THAT SHE LOVED HIM, AND HER HUSBAND TO KNOW THAT SHE LOVED HIM. BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. REPORTER: HER STEPMOTHER SPEAKING WITH US OUTSIDE MERCY HOSPITAL, AS PARILLO WAS PREPARING TO GO INTO SURGERY. EARLIER SHE WATCHED AS HER SUPERVISOR WAS STABBED TWICE IN THE BACK. PARILLO WAS STABBED IN THE HEAD, LOSING A LOT OF BLOOD FROM THE GASH THAT HER HUSBAND DESCRIBED AS SOMETHING OUT OF A HORROR MOVIE. TONIGHT SHE'S OUT OF SURGERY AND IN STABLE CONDITION. THE TWO WOMEN HAD LOCKED THEMSELVES IN A ROOM, FRANTICALLY CALLING 911. >> SHE SAID SHE WAS LOCKED IN A ROOM WITH HER SUPERVISOR WHO HAD BEEN STABBED, AND HER SUPERVISOR WAS LYING ON THE FLOOR, AND SHE WAS MADING UNDER A DESK. REPORTER: THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR IS FROM NEW YORK, ACCORDING TO HER AUNT WHO SPOKE TO US BY PHONE. SHE SAYS LEWISON REMAINS IN I.C.U. THOUGH DOCTORS SAY SURGERY ISN'T NEEDED. THEY ARE TRYING TO KEEP HER AS COMFORTABLE AS POSSIBLE FOR NOW. TONIGHT IT SEEMS BOTH WOMEN MAY BE PLUCKY TO HAVE SURVIVED. >> YES, WE'RE VERY RELIEVED. REPORTER: PARILLA'S HUSBAND SAYS SHE'LL BE KEPT HERE OVERNIGHT FOR CONTINUING TREATMENT. AND WE'RE NOT EXACTLY CERTAIN WHICH HOSPITAL LEWISON IS AT, BUT WE DO KNOW THAT HER MOTHER IS WITH HER TONIGHT AT HER BEDSIDE. 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