This is an archival story that predates current editorial management.
This archival content was written, edited, and published prior to LAist's acquisition by its current owner, Southern California Public Radio ("SCPR"). Content, such as language choice and subject matter, in archival articles therefore may not align with SCPR's current editorial standards. To learn more about those standards and why we make this distinction, please click here.
A man who was asked to leave a valley hospital was stabbed to death by an employee who kicked him off the property. City News Service reports that the stabbing took place at about 3 this morning at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Woodland Hills.
The victim, a male transient in his 40s, died at the hospital, according to the coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter.
Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Norma Eisenman said that the unidentified male employee asked the man to leave, but the man struck the employee. In response, the employee drew a knife and stabbed him. The struggle took place outside of the hospital.
The employee has not been arrested, said Eisenman, but he could still face charges, pending the results of the current investigation.
