Overview

• Authorities say an ambulance crew responded around 11:30 a.m. Saturday to a report of a man in crisis who threatened suicide.
• The man allegedly attacked with a sharp object and the 45-year-old paramedic later died at a hospital.
• Police found a 25-year-old suspect in a nearby apartment and took him into custody without visible resistance.
• The suspect had been briefly admitted to psychiatric care earlier in the week after reportedly assaulting responders with a baseball bat, then was released two days later.
• Relatives and colleagues are mourning the victim, and the prime minister conveyed condolences while noting that full details are still being established.