City-owned hospitals are letting psychotic killers slip through their grasp, say a pair of recently-filed lawsuits.
Francisco Perez, who has a history of mental illness, drug abuse and violent behavior, threatened to kill his brother in October 2016 while he was a patient at Metropolitan Hospital Center in East Harlem, says a suit in Bronx Supreme Court.
But hospital staff failed to take Perez’s ravings seriously. The day he was released, he allegedly carried through on his threats and stabbed Luis Gonzalez to death.
