Shanetta Bossell, 38, who is charged in the stabbing death of Kansas City Fire Medic Graham Hoffman, was in jail last week for allegedly biting a police officer.

Graham Hoffman, 29, was taking a patient to the hospital following a routine medical call from police when he was stabbed in the chest, piercing his heart.

Early Sunday morning, firefighter Graham Hoffman, 29, was in the back of an ambulance transporting a patient to the hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, when he was stabbed in the chest, piercing his heart, according to a press release published on the city's website.