Police: Paramedic student stabbed during attempted sex assault outside Jacksonville firehouse
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A female paramedic student tells police she was attacked outside of a Westside fire station. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has not located a suspect.
The woman told police she left Fire Station No. 52 on Collins Road at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday morning when someone attacked her, according to the incident report.
Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department spokesman Tom Francis says the victim is a paramedic student.
She suffered a puncture wound below her rib cage and multiple lacerations on her upper thighs. She accuses her attacker of trying to sexually assault her.
“Upon learning the details of this incredibly reprehensible and despicable crime, we were saddened and above all else angered,” said Tom Francis, public information officer for the Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department.
Francis said the victim is a paramedics student, and according to a heavily redacted JSO police report, she was attacked after leaving the fire station early Thursday morning. Following the attack, she returned to the station for help, banging on multiple doors before passing out near the kitchen. She later awoke, called 911, and was found outside by rescuers with a deep cut to her side and multiple lacerations on her upper thighs.
Francis said the fire department is doing everything they can to help, but Action News has learned there are no surveillance cameras on station property.
