Hospital Worker Struck by Man Who Was Refused Medication: Cops

LAKE FOREST, IL - A Highland Park man had to be subdued by police last week after he was accused of striking an employee at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital.

Raymond A. Roman, 44 was charged with battery and resisting a peace officer at 11:11 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 13, according to a Lake Forest police report.

Police were called to the hospital for a report of a man who had become combative. When they arrived, officers determined that Roman struck a male hospital worker with both hands when he was refused the medication he was seeking.

Roman also became combative with police, yelling out that he “was not going to get arrested” when told he would be charged with battery, according to the report, before removing a nearby wooden garbage can lid and swinging it in front of his face to hold officers off.

Roman repeatedly yelled that he would have to be shot and “tazed” because he was not going to be placed in handcuffs, police said.