Niagara man among NYC hospital shooting victims
Dr. Justin Timperio of St. Catharines shot as many as nine times
A St. Catharines doctor shot multiple times is among the wounded after a shooting at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital in New York City last week.
Justin Timperio, 29, is one of six people injured after a former employee of the hospital opened fire on Friday, killing one doctor.
Timperio’s father, Luciano Timperio, said his son was shot “between six and nine times,” resulting in damage to his liver and other internal organs.
He said his son’s condition had stabilized enough that he could receive an operation on Monday.
He said his son was heavily sedated and can’t speak due to a tube in his throat to aid his breathing.
The younger Timperio is a graduate of Brock University and of the American University of the Caribbean. His father said he started working at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital about three years ago, for the clinical component of his medical training. He was then accepted to the hospital’s family residency medical program, where he has worked for the past year.
“He was just finishing up, he was going to start second year,” his father said. “Well, he was supposed to start second year.”
Efforts by the Standard to reach family members were unsuccessful Monday.
Many of the other victims of Friday’s shooting were also doctors at the hospital.
The gunman, Dr. Henry Bello, left Bronx-Lebanon in 2015 due to allegations of sexual harassment. He returned Friday with an assault rifle hidden under a lab coat and shot seven people, killing one woman, before fatally shooting himself.