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| Gunman in Bronx Hospital Shooting Is Dead, Officials Say | Gunman in Bronx Hospital Shooting Is Dead, Officials Say |
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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. |
| Shortly before 4 p.m., J. Peter Donald, the chief spokesman for the New York City Police Department, said that the gunman was dead. He was identified by the police as Henry Bello. On the hospital’s website a Henry Bello is listed as a doctor employed in family medicine. | Shortly before 4 p.m., J. Peter Donald, the chief spokesman for the New York City Police Department, said that the gunman was dead. He was identified by the police as Henry Bello. On the hospital’s website a Henry Bello is listed as a doctor employed in family medicine. |
| The condition of the doctors was not known, according to the Fire Department official. | The condition of the doctors was not known, according to the Fire Department official. |
| 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. | 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. |
| Preliminary reports indicate that five to six 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. | Preliminary reports indicate that five to six 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. |
| 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, at 1650 Grand Concourse. 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. | The victims were on the 16th and 17th floors of the hospital, at 1650 Grand Concourse. 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. |
| 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. | 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. |