One person is dead and three other people are wounded after a knife attack in a north Calgary doctor’s office.
CALGARY - One person is dead and another wounded after a knife attack in a north Calgary doctor’s office.
Cops, paramedics and firefighter were called to a medical centre at 1623 Centre St. N after the stabbing shortly after 2:40 p.m.Thursday.
They found one victim already dead and another suffering lesser wounds.
Stuart Brideaux, of EMS, said: “We were called and co-responded with police at around 2:40 p.m. in the 1600 block of Centre St. N.
“We assessed two patients on scene — one person, an adult — was declared deceased and not transported.
“We did take a woman believed to be in her mid-50s to the Sheldon Chumir with a minor soft-tissue injury.”
One female witness said she saw the woman with cuts to her wrist.
The woman didn’t speak English and was translated by a bystander, neither of which wanted to give their names.
Emma Wong, 54, owns Essential Eyewear on the first floor of the building.
She said she heard a commotion upstairs.
“All of a sudden we heard a lot of shouting,” she said.
“It got worse, considerably louder, so I went out to look.”
Wong said she saw people rushing downstairs and a police officer with a gun drawn running up.
The owners of a bakery and a dim sum restaurant at the bottom of the stairs immediately threw down their security gates, Wong said, afraid they were in danger.
The bakery remained shuttered hours later.
“It’s so scary when something like this happens,” Wong said.
“We hear people arguing here a lot so we didn’t think anything of it at first.”
Maggie Law, who owns the Misanto Spa a few doors down from the clinic, said she heard screaming.
Though she didn’t see what happened, Law said she saw someone from the medical centre run into the Central Grand restaurant next door.
“They were yelling, ‘Bring some more towels, more towels, blood,” Law said.
“It was scary.”
Later, Law said she saw police bring out with a suspect.
Police officers were seen guarding the outside and going into the Perpetual Wellness Chinese Medicine Centre on the second floor of the strip mall.
On the office window bears the name Dr. Tiejun Huang, followed by credentials Ph.D./MD R.Ac RMT DTCM.
It also states on the window the doctor was a sports medicine specialist at the Beijing Olympic Games, was also a professor in sports medicine and rehabilitation, and performs acupuncture and Chinese “Tuina” massage.
A pair of slippers were left on the floor in front of the clinic.
The area is blocked off with yellow police tape.
Nancy Zhu works as a nurse at Olive Medical in the strip mall and helped apply first aid to an injured woman.
“A woman, she was bleeding...I can’t remember which hand..she was cut.”
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