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3 Doctors Shot Inside Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, Officials Say 3 Doctors Shot Inside Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center
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At least three doctors were shot inside Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in the Mount Hope neighborhood of the Bronx on Friday afternoon, according to a Fire Department official.At least three doctors were shot inside Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in the Mount Hope neighborhood of the Bronx on Friday afternoon, according to a Fire Department official.
The condition of the doctors was not known and as of midafternoon the shooter was still at large, according to the official. The police had not yet secured the area, preventing emergency medical workers from entering the hospital at 1650 Grand Concourse. Shortly before 4 p.m., J. Peter Donald, the chief spokesman for the New York City Police Department, said that the gunman was dead.
In a radio transmission, police described the shooter as a tall, thin man wearing a blue shirt and white lab coat. The condition of the doctors was not known, according to the Fire Department official. The police had not yet secured the area, preventing emergency medical workers from entering the hospital at 1650 Grand Concourse. It was unclear if there were more victims.
Preliminary reports indicate that there are 5 to 6 people wounded, though their conditions were not immediately known, according a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing event. In a radio transmission, police had described the gunman as a tall, thin man wearing a blue shirt and white lab coat. A police official said he had a long gun.
It was unclear if any of the victims had died. “The perp is not in custody right now,” the official said. Preliminary reports indicate that 5 to 6 people are wounded, though their conditions were not immediately known, according to another police official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing event.
“It looks like an employee of the hospital, that’s what we’re hearing, unconfirmed, right now,” the official said.“It looks like an employee of the hospital, that’s what we’re hearing, unconfirmed, right now,” the official said.
The official added: “It looks like it’s an active shooter; we do not have the shooter in custody.”
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.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.
The victims were on the 16th and 17th floors of the hospital. By 3:30 the section of the hospital where the injured doctors were contained had been secured and the police were leading a heavily armored unit of emergency service workers into the building. The victims were on the 16th and 17th floors of the hospital. By 3:30 the section of the hospital where the injured doctors were contained had been secured and the police were leading a heavily armored group of emergency service workers into the building.
A woman who answered the phone in the hospital’s admittance office, who gave only her first name as Morgan, said that an alert went out to staff around 3 p.m. to the staff ordering them to shelter in place. She said she was huddled in a room with several other staffers. 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 ok,” 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.
“We have no idea about what is going on,” she said.“We have no idea about what is going on,” she said.