A 63-year-old man was arrested in connection with the attempted murder of a patient at a South Florida hospital, police said.
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A 63-year-old man was arrested in connection with the attempted murder of a patient at a South Florida hospital, police said.
At first, police thought they were responding to a 911 call about a patient in possible cardiac arrest at South Florida State Hospital, 800 Cypress Dr. in Pembroke Pines.
But when officers and fire rescue arrived to the psychiatric hospital Tuesday morning and saw the man’s head injuries, they realized something was wrong and an investigation began, according to Pembroke Pines police.
Investigators determined that Alexander Ramseur, another patient at the hospital, had “intentionally battered the victim,” causing his head injuries, police said. Ramseur was arrested and booked into Broward’s Main Jail on attempted homicide charges.
The injured man was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, where he remains in critical condition.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
