Wayne Spence, president of the New York State Public Employees Federation, on Thursday visited two Buffalo Psychiatric Center employees critically wounded during a stabbing at the facility a day earlier that also injured a third worker.
“They’re lucky to be alive,” Spence said after talking with the two at Erie County Medical Center.
One of the men, Spence said, is a PEF union member and residential program specialist who has had multiple surgeries at ECMC after suffering three stab wounds – two in the abdomen and one in the back – as well as a laceration to his neck.
The other employee, who Spence said is a CSEA union member, told him that he had 10 stab wounds from the incident.
Both men told Spence that the Buffalo Psychiatric Center patient accused of the attack had two knives during the incident that occurred just after 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Spence said the two employees were “in good spirits,” though both of them have “got a ways to go” in their recoveries.
Calvin Haskins, 34, was taken into custody after the Wednesday morning stabbing and faces a litany of charges after the incident in a part of the psychiatric…
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