Police arrested and charged a Miami-based Jackson Memorial Hospital employee July 6 who allegedly threatened "to kill the staff doctors and nurses" at the facility, according to the Miami Herald.
Police arrested and charged Juvane Raheem Hylton, 21, with one count of making a false report regarding placing a bomb or explosive device and one count of misusing police communications.
According to police arrest records obtained by the Miami Herald, Mr. Hylton told police a patient assigned to room 533 at the hospital asked him to help him make a call June 29. However, officials determined the patient assigned to the room was undergoing a medical procedure at the time the call was made, according to the report.
Mr. Hylton, a secretary at the hospital, reportedly called the police's nonemergency phone line from the patient's room and said he would shoot up the medical center's west wing with an AR-15 and an AK-47, according to the police report.
Jackson Memorial was subsequently placed on lockdown, and police searched the 15-floor facility and adjacent grounds. No shots were fired that day, the report states.
The June 29 threat was one of two shooting threats the hospital received during a four-day time span and "caused pandemonium" at the facility, the Miami Herald reports. The second threat followed in the form of two emails sent to 7News July 2 before being forwarded to the police.
The July 2 threat is still under investigation.