(Observer Network News) According to the Associated Press, CNN and other US media reports, on the morning of the 22nd local time, a parole inmate wearing an ankle monitor shot at a hospital in Dallas, Texas, killing two medical staff. After the shooting, a police officer arrived at the scene to confront the suspect and shot and wounded him.
The suspect is now under control and taken to another local hospital for treatment, where the cause of the shooting is unknown. For the shooting, the Dallas police chief criticized on Twitter on the 22nd that it was an "odious failure of the criminal justice system" in the United States, giving violent criminals more opportunities than victims.
CNN: A shooting at a hospital in Dallas killed 2 employees
According to an Associated Press report on October 22, local time, the shooting occurred at Dallas Methodist Dallas Medical Center, and the gunman was 30-year-old Nestor Hernandez. That morning, Hernandez suddenly opened fire at the hospital, killing two paramedical staff.
Although the hospital has not released the names of the victims and their positions at the hospital, Charley Wilkison, chief executive of the Texas United Law Enforcement Association, tweeted on the same day that the two were nurses who worked in the hospital's obstetrics department.
Denise Jones, who went to visit her parents in the hospital, told FOX 4 afterwards that she was rushing to the hospital at the time of the incident, but her father suddenly called her, told her that "there is a gunman in the building" and told her to "get back in your car, the farther away from the hospital, the better." Jones' father locked himself in his wife's hospital room and pressed a chair against the door.
According to a statement from the Methodist Dallas Medical Center on the afternoon of the 22nd, after the shooting, at about 11 a.m., the Methodist Medical System police, Dallas police and the Dallas Fire and Rescue Team responded to the shooting.
"A Methodist health system police officer arrived at the scene, confronted the suspect and shot him, wounding him," the statement continued. The suspect was detained and, after stabilization, taken to another local hospital. ”
According to CNN 22, according to Dallas police, the gunman Hernandez was previously on parole for serious robbery, and there was a running monitor on his ankle at the time of the shooting.
On October 22, local time, Dallas police responded to the hospital shooting
Hernandez will reportedly face murder charges, and it is unclear what caused the shooting, and as of the evening of the 22nd, it was unclear whether Hernandez targeted a specific nurse.
After the shooting, Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia promised on Twitter on the 22nd that the police would do everything in their power to assist the Methodist Health System police in investigating the case. Garcia also criticized the tragedy as "an abhorrent failure of the criminal justice system" in the United States: "I share our community's anger at the lack of accountability and the fact that under this broken system, we give violent criminals more opportunities than victims." ”
The shooting came after a shooting at a hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, in late September, killing one person; In June, a hospital shooting also occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma, resulting in the death of four people, including two doctors.
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