Patient attacks another at Montreal’s CHUM hospital [Video]

A 35-year-old man who allegedly stabbed a fellow patient at a Montreal hospital Tuesday morning was arrested the day before for starting a fire inside an apartment, police say.

The patient who was stabbed, a 53-year-old man, suffered serious upper body injuries but his life is not in danger. Police say they received a 911 call at 1:15 a.m. and responded to the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM).

When officers arrived, hospital staff had already restrained the suspect. He was arrested for attempted murder as police continue to investigate the motive for the attack.

Police spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant said the man was arrested hours earlier in the city’s Village neighbourhood. At around 2:30 p.m. Monday, police received a 911 call about a man in mental distress in an apartment on Montcalm Street.

He refused to leave the third-floor unit for several hours and started a small fire, according …