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CORNELL SUN CORTLAND, NEW YORK 
Alex J. Stephens A former student at Tompkins County Community College was charged with first-degree assault, a felony, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and a misdemeanor after he stabbed a male nurse early yesterday morning at Cortland Regional Medical Center, according to The Ithaca Journal. The nurse has internal bleeding, and is in guarded condition at Upstate Medical Hospital. Although Alex Stephens, 18, withdrew from his classes early this week and is no longer an enrolled student, he was on TC3’s campus visiting friends’ dormitories when he ingested hallucinogen mushrooms and overdosed on the narcotic drugs, according to The Journal. He was taken from TC3’s campus to the hospital for a mental health evaluation when he became uncontrollable and stabbed the 53-year-old nurse in the chest with a folding knife that he withdrew from his waistband. Stephens was arraigned and sent without bail to Courtland County Jail.
PRESSCONNECTS.com A former Tompkins Cortland Community College student who had ingested hallucinogen mushrooms was charged with stabbing a Cortland Regional Medical Center nurse early today. Alex J. Stephens, 18, of Freeville was at the hospital for a mental health evaluation when he stabbed a 53-year-old male nurse in the chest once at 1:30 a.m., Cortland Police said. He was subdued, arrested and charged with first-degree assault, a felony, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a misdemeanor, they added. The victim is in guarded condition with internal bleeding at Upstate Medical Hospital, police said. Stephens, who withdrew from classes earlier in the week, was visiting friends at the campus residence halls, college officials said. Stephens’ friend told campus public safety officers that Stephens had overdosed on a narcotic drug, and Dryden Ambulance took Stephens to the hospital for evaluation under the mental hygiene law, police said. Stephens became unruly at the hospital, pulled a folding knife from his waistband and stabbed the nurse, police said. Their investigation revealed that Stephens had been using psilocybin mushrooms earlier in the evening, they added. Psilocybin is a hallucinogen, according to the Department of Justice. Stephens was arraigned in Cortland City Court and remanded to Cortland County Jail without bail.
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