The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Former doctor opens fire in Bronx hospital
The gunman who opened fire at a New York City hospital was a doctor who formerly worked there, a police official said.
Dr Henry Bello walked into Bronx Lebanon Hospital at about 2.50pm on Friday with a rifle concealed in his lab coat and opened fire, killing at least one person and injuring six others.
He then apparently killed himself.
The conditions of the injured are not known.
Dr Bello, who was 45, was listed on the hospital’s website as a family medicine physician.
Bello pulled a rifle – believed to be an M-16-type weapon – from under his white lab coat and opened fire inside the hospital.
There are reports that he had recently been fired from his position at the hospital for harassing a fellow employee.
Initial reports suggested three doctors had been shot.
People at the scene treated one of the injured doctors by tying an emergency fire hose into a makeshift tourniquet, according to reports.
Emergency crews had been kept from going inside the hospital while the shooter was at large. Reports indicated doctors in the hospital refused to evacuate and remained to treat the wounded.
A witness told CBS News: “I saw blood on the floor, I saw a doctor with blood on his hands.
“People were crying, people were all nervous. I was just trying to keep people calm,” added the man, who said he had worked there for five years. “I didn’t know [the suspect] personally. I’ve heard of him, but I’ve never worked with him.”
Garry Trimble told CBS his fiancée works at the hospital and was ordered to stay inside. He said she called him to tell him what was happening, and he rushed to the scene himself.
“She was crying and she said, ‘Somebody’s going around shooting, and we locked up. We barricaded ourselves in the room with employees’,” he said.