

Chris Herhalt, CP24.com





Toronto police say emergency task force officers have arrested a male patient who allegedly barricaded himself at Toronto East General Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook said police were called to the hospital at 12:45 p.m. after a male patient allegedly locked himself in a room.

Const. Craig Brister said the patient called for a doctor who may have joined him in the room, but the doctor was not restrained.

Douglas-Cook said the doctor eventually got out of the room and called police while the man remained barricaded inside.

Police emergency task force officers and the mobile crisis team arrived on scene to negotiate with the suspect. The patient was not armed.

Brister said the patient was apprehended but not arrested, just after 1:30 p.m.