Paramedics forced to abandon ambulance after man pulls a knife
•Two Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical paramedics had to abandon their ambulance near downtown Friday afternoon when police say a man being transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital pulled a knife on them.
The man was being transported to LMH for undisclosed medical reasons when he became upset at the ambulance crew, Fire Medical Chief Mark Bradford said. The crew jumped out of the ambulance after pulling north onto Louisiana Street from Sixth Street.
According to Lawrence Police Sgt. Bill Cory, said the man was detained inside the ambulance and no one was injured in the ordeal. He was later transported to LMH.
• A man was involved in an injury accident Friday afternoon on Kansas Highway 10. According to Douglas County Sheriff’s Sgt. Steve Lewis, the man was driving when he fell asleep at the wheel and drifted onto the shoulder. He woke up, overcorrected and crossed the westbound and eastbound lanes. The man was transported to a Kansas City-area hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.
• Lawrence police are still working to determine what happened to a 23-year-old man, believed to have been injured in a possible hit-and-run accident early Sunday morning.
Aaron Natalie was discharged from Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center in Topeka on Monday.
An officer found Natalie injured near Sixth and Kentucky around 3 a.m. Sunday.
Natalie was flown by air ambulance to the hospital, where a doctor said that it appeared Natalie had been struck by a vehicle.






