Sept. 01--A 40-year-old man was seriously injured after he jumped out of a sixth-floor window at Anne Arundel Medical Center on Friday afternoon.
The man, Bradly Poure, was in the hospital for psychiatric evaluation after Annapolis City Police arrested him Thursday morning, Annapolis Police said.
Officials said Poure was about to be discharged when he used a piece of medical equipment to break out a window of a hospital room around 4:30 p.m.
Poure fell 35 to 40 feet from the window to the third-floor roof of an adjoining building to the Annapolis hospital's North Pavillion, said Chad Dillard, a spokesman for the hospital. County police confirmed Poure was conscious when they arrived on scene. County police were categorizing the event as an attempted suicide, Lt. James Fredericks.
Firefighters and paramedics were able to reach the man by gaining access to the roof of the building he landed on, said Anne Arundel County Fire Division Chief Michael Cox.
They immobilized him because of his potential injuries, Cox said. They had to removed a third floor window to get him back into the hospital for treatment, Cox said. Poure was taken with life-threatening injuries by helicopter to University of Maryland Shock Trauma in Baltimore.
Poure, who is from New York, was arrested around 4 a.m. on Thursday morning after police received a report of a man sleeping near a motorcycle outside the 24/7 Fuel Mart on Forest Drive, said Annapolis City Police spokeswoman Det. Amy Miguez.
When police found the man, he resisted arrest and assaulted at least one officer. Police took him to AAMC for involuntary evaluation.
A supervisor had been at AAMC earlier in the day to check on Poure and was told he would not be discharged until Saturday morning, Miquez said. He had a warrant for his arrest and will be charged with assault, including the assault of a law enforcement officer, reckless endangerment, false imprisonment and resisting arrest, Miquez said.
There were no city police officers at the hospital at the time of the incident to take Poure into custody.
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