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Cops: Psych patient attacks 3, steals car

Originally published: May 16, 2011 9:32 AM
Updated: May 16, 2011 9:41 PM
By ANDREW STRICKLER  andrew.strickler@newsday.com

A psychiatric patient beat up two medical workers and a third man on a Nassau parkway before taking a cop's car and leading police on a chase to the Bronx, authorities said Monday.

The patient, Kenneth Ashley, was "acting appropriately" before being placed in an ambulance at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park early Sunday afternoon, a hospital official said Monday.

Ashley,...

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