BAY SHORE, Long Island (PIX11)-- A hospital security officer is fighting for his life after an incident that prosecutors described as an attack by a patient that caused "substantial pain." The family of the officer, Gardy Coriolan, 63, said that, like him, they're also fighting for justice in the criminal case that has emerged from the incident.

It happened at around 12:30 a.m. last Thursday in the emergency department of Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre, Long Island.

The hospital officer's wife, Sonya Coriolan, called the incident between a patient and her husband severe.

"They don't expect to be in ICU at the end of their tour," she said about the result of the early morning incident that police investigators said involved patient Eduard Lopez, 28.

They said, in charging documents,

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