Saturday, March 24, 2012

Man fatally stabbed in Woodland Hills by Kaiser Foundation Hospital employee

Man fatally stabbed in Woodland Hills by Kaiser Foundation Hospital employee ID'd
Daily News Wire Services
03/21/2012

A man whom police said was fatally stabbed by a Kaiser Foundation Hospital employee ouside the Woodland Hills Medical Center was identified Tuesday as a 48-year-old transient.

Michael Joseph Vizkelety, 48, was stabbed about 3 a.m. Monday after being ordered by the employee to get off the hospital grounds, officials said.

Vizkelety struck the employee, identified as Solomon Lee Washington, 58, who then stabbed the man. Vizkelety was taken to the hospital's emergency room, where he was pronounced dead.

Washington, who was not a security guard, was arrested Monday on suspicion of murder. He was being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

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