… where UD was born (her father was a Hopkins post-doc at the time) has always sat in a dangerous neighborhood.
In a breaking story, a doctor there has been shot, with the shooter still in the hospital.
No word yet on the condition of the doctor.
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More details. Doctor is in critical condition, and the gunman is holed up in a locked room on the eighth floor. He apparently has a hostage who may be a relative of his.
A nurse who said she was on the floor at the time of the shooting said that the shooter was upset about the medical treatment of his mother. He was threatening to jump out of a window, she said.
“I started running,” she said. “When you hear gunshots you run.”
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My friend Courtney, the rock climber and competitive frisbee player, works at Hopkins, and Gchats me the following:
they’ve caught the guy
doctor expected to make it
i’m in fells point about 10 blocks south
but i work with the executive director of news and information for JHU
he’s four desks away
doctor is in surgery now
we are all asking ourselves [how the guy got past the hospital entrance with a gun]
i was going to go to the hospital to give blood today
looks like that won’t be happening
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UD is grateful to Courtney.
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Update: Earlier reports about the shooter were wrong. He hasn’t been caught. Courtney writes:
police scanner is discussing “ongoing unresolved tactical situation”
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Another update: I’m told (this is unconfirmed) that the doctor is out of surgery and in stable condition.
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Police have shot and killed the gunman.
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Correction: The gunman killed his mother and then himself.
September 16th, 2010 at 2:32PM
I watched the press conference online. It was a murder-suicide. The doctor told the man that his mother had become paralyzed after her spinal surgery, and the guy got upset, shot the doctor, then locked himself in his mother’s hospital room, eventually killing her and then himself. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h5LE9Abo9vIVxq0QUj63cBKyq3hgD9I96QD80
September 16th, 2010 at 2:43PM
Hi Carolyn: Yes – just got back from teaching, and I’m going to post that correction now. Thanks!