COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A 39-year-old man accused of attempted murder has been taken into custody after escaping from an Omaha hospital where he was being treated for stab wounds.  Bluffs Police report David Leroy McKee, of Council Bluffs, left CHI Creighton Hospital sometime between 2-and 2:40-p.m., Wednesday. At the time he was being transported to another area of the hospital for care of injuries he suffered during a stabbing incident Sunday evening.

McKee was apprehended in the vicinity of 42nd and Hamilton Streets in Omaha, and transported back to Creighton, where he was released from their care and then booked into the Douglas County, NE., Jail on warrants for attempted murder, first-degree burglary and felony domestic abuse assault.  He’s currently awaiting extradition back to Pottawattamie County.

McKee was charged after police investigated a report of a man threatening his estranged wife and another woman. McKee was stabbed with a kitchen knife by Roberta McKee after he allegedly tried to choke her to death. The other woman was not injured.