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Matt Sepic
St. Paul, Minn.

Police ID man who allegedly attacked nurses, died in police custody

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The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating after a patient from St. John's Hospital in Maplewood died in police custody.

Authorities on Monday said 68-year-old Charles Logan, Sr. of St. Paul hit four nurses with a metal bar early Sunday morning and ran away.

Maplewood police and Ramsey County sheriff's deputies found Logan still holding the metal bar about three blocks from the hospital, where the deputies tried to subdue him with a Taser.

The BCA says Logan became unresponsive after the deputies pulled him to the ground and handcuffed him. Deputies and paramedics tried to revive him with CPR, according to a Maplewood Police statement. Logan was pronounced dead at St. John's Hospital.

Maplewood Police Chief Paul Schnell said Logan did not have a history of violence.

"He was suffering some level of confusion and perhaps a degree of some paranoia that was related to a medical condition," Schnell said. "This had been a very, very recent development, we're told."

None of the hospital's patients were targets of the attack, and investigators don't know why the nurses were hit.

Schnell said the Ramsey County Medical examiner is performing an autopsy to find out how Logan died.

He said one of the nurses suffered a collapsed lung. Another was treated for a concussion and broken wrist. In a statement Monday evening, a spokeswoman for HealthEast said the nurses remain hospitalized Monday night.

The nurses were identified as Leslie Lichey, 40, of Wyoming, Minnesota; Brooke Scott, 22, of Brooklyn Park; Nicole Eenisse, 32, of Lino Lakes and Kelly Roberto, 30, of Hudson, Wisconsin.

Police said two Ramsey County deputies and one Maplewood police officer are on standard administrative leave.