A gunman, who was wearing a
white lab coat, was killed, apparently by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the
police said. He was identified by a police official as Henry Bello.
One doctor was shot and
killed and at least six other people were injured on Friday afternoon inside
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center after a former doctor at the hospital opened fire
with an assault rifle, officials said.
On the hospital’s website a
Henry Bello is listed as a doctor employed in family medicine.
The hospital’s fire alarm
system had been set off, apparently because the gunman had tried to set himself
on fire.
Five of six victims were
seriously wounded and the sixth had been shot in the leg. All the shooting
victims were found on the 16th and 17th floors of the hospital at 1650 Grand
Concourse.
As the situation continued
to unfold, at least one doctor was being treated by people inside the hospital
who had tied an emergency fire hose as a tourniquet, the fire department
official said.
By 3:30 p.m., the section
of the hospital where the doctors were injured had been secured and the police
were leading a heavily armoured group of emergency service workers into the
building.
Inside the hospital’s
pediatric unit, a woman answering the phone who declined to give her name said
that she and others were sheltering in place, unable to leave. "We are
just keeping safe. We are O.K.,” she said. “All of us have to feel tense
because of the situation.”
A woman who answered the
phone in the hospital’s admittance office, who gave only her first name,
Morgan, said that an alert went out to the staff around 3 p.m. ordering them to
shelter in place. She said she was huddled in a room with several other
workers.
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