Around 7:15pm on Christmas Eve, (Friday, December 24th) Galesburg police were dispatched to St. Mary’s Medical Center in response to a patient battering staff. Officers met with an 80-year old male security guard who advised police 53-year old Lorelee Simpson of Galesburg continually tried to leave the hospital. Hospital staff advised Simpson she was not allowed to leave. Simpson continued to ignore staff commands and tried running out of the hospital. That’s when the security guard stepped in front of Simpson trying to stop her. Simpson struck the male several times with her cell phone and at some point cut his arm with her fingernail. Simpson told officers she was trying to leave to get home for the holidays. She was placed under arrest and transported to the Knox County Jail. Simpson was charged with aggravated battery to a victim over the age of 60.