Crime & Safety
Woman Slits Wrists Inside Brooklyn Courthouse, Police Say
The woman slit her wrists inside Brooklyn Supreme Court a judge dismissed her lawsuit, according to police and reports.

BROOKLYN, NY — A woman slit her wrists inside Brooklyn Supreme Court on Thursday morning after a judge tossed out her lawsuit against a bank over her foreclosed home, according to police and reports.
The 52-year-old woman was inside 360 Adams St. courthouse when she used an unknown object to slash both of her wrists at about 11:54 a.m., a spokeswoman for the NYPD.
The woman went into a bathroom of the fifth-floor in the court of the court to slit her wrists after a judge tossed out her suit against Astoria Federal Savings Bank over her home which was foreclosed in 2010, the New York Post reported.
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The woman was taken to Methodist Hospital where she's listed in stable condition, police said.
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