Philadelphia — A nurse assistant was shot and killed inside Jefferson Hospital in Center City early Monday morning, CBS Philly reports. Police say the suspect, a 55-year-old heavily armed man wearing scrubs, shot the 43-year-old male nurse on the hospital’s 9th floor just after midnight.
Police say the suspect also worked at the hospital as a nursing assistant, but it was unclear how the two knew each other.
The suspect was able to get inside the hospital despite being armed because he had access to certain areas since he was an employee, according to police. He was wearing body armor and had multiple weapons, including an AR-15, police said.
The suspect fled the hospital in a U-Haul truck and was seen heading toward I-95, waving a large gun.
A short time later, the suspect got into a shootout with police in a wooded area near the School of the Future, a public high school in the city.
At least two officers were shot – one in the right arm and the other suffering a graze wound to the nose, according to police. Both were in stable condition.
The suspect was hit in the upper body and neck and was in critical condition, according to police.
“When the officers arrived there, four of our 16th district officers encountered the male,” Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said. “The male who was the shooter fired at the officers, and four of the officers returned fire. We learned that he was wearing body armor and was carrying multiple weapons in addition to the long gun, which was believed to be an AR-15. He was also carrying some form of a handgun, a semi-automatic handgun.”
All three were taken to taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.
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