WATCH: Shoppers Tackle Man After Allegedly Coughing, Spitting on Produce; Woman, 86, Dies After Being Knocked to Ground at Hospital for Violating Social Distancing

By Fox News. A group of Massachusetts shoppers tackled a man and pinned him to the ground until police arrived after catching him allegedly coughing and spitting on produce, fanning coronavirus fears.

Cell phone video shot from inside a Stop & Shop in Kingston on Saturday showed at least three men on top of the man as in the produce aisle.

“Don’t try and get up,” one of the shoppers tells the man pinned to the floor.

Witnesses told police they spotted the 65-year-old man from Duxbury, whose name was not released by authorities, coughing and spitting on produce.

(Read more from “WATCH: Shoppers Tackle Man After Allegedly Coughing, Spitting on Produce Amid Coronavirus Outbreak” HERE)

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Woman, 86, Dies After Being Knocked to Ground at Hospital for Violating Social Distancing

By Fox News. An 86-year-old woman in a Brooklyn hospital died Saturday after being assaulted by another patient for allegedly breaking social distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus outbreak, according to a report.

The incident could be New York City’s first coronavirus-related homicide, the New York Daily News reported. Autopsy results are pending.

Janie Marshall, 86, was involved in an altercation with another patient, a 32-year-old woman, around 2:07 p.m. inside the NYC Health and Hospitals/Woodhull in Brooklyn, NYPD said in a statement to Fox News.

Staff told police that Marshall was pushed to the ground, hit her head on the floor and lost consciousness briefly. (Read more from “Woman, 86, Dies After Being Knocked to Ground at Hospital for Violating Social Distancing” HERE)

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