Gnu Massacre at NY Hospital

[cronus]

Saves ambulance response times. Apparently someone dressed as a doctor. Could be they were a doctor? In Trump era America Doctor shoots first.

[Rum]

i am sometimes amazed at your ability to get almost every post you make utterly and totally wrong., both in fact, tone and spirit.

[cronus]

i am sometimes amazed at your ability to get almost every post you make utterly and totally wrong., both in fact, tone and spirit.

Blue on blue Rum...it's a doctor kill doctor world nowadays. Only so many jobs in medicare left.

[JimC]

So there is an actual story, here from ABC news...

A former employee of a New York City hospital returned with an assault rifle hidden under his white lab coat and opened fire, killing one doctor and wounding six other people before apparently taking his own life.

The gunfire broke out at 2:50pm (local time) inside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital, bringing police cars and firetrucks rushing to the scene and sending officers onto the roof with their guns drawn as people inside the building were told to hide.

The assailant, wearing a white, medical-style lab coat and armed with an assault rifle, stalked the 16th and 17th floors of the hospital, and apparently tried to set himself on fire at one point, officials said.

Officers went floor by floor looking for the gunman and later reported that the shooter was dead inside the building.

He was identified by law enforcement officials as Dr Henry Bello, a family medicine physician at the hospital.

It was not immediately clear why he was no longer working at the hospital and there was no immediate word on a motive.

"One doctor is dead and there are several others who are fighting for their lives right now," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

The Mayor characterised the shooting as an "isolated incident" that appeared to be "workplace-related".

The 120-year-old hospital has nearly 1,000 beds and one of the busiest emergency rooms in New York City.

And Rum, in some ways Crumps is simply carrying on the Ratzian tradition of warped black humour...

[pErvinalia]

I just heard about this on the news. I was struck by the [insert appropriate phrase here; brain not working this morning] of the injured already being in a hospital when they found themselves in the most need of a hospital..

[cronus]

Looks like crutch grabbing accusations sent the guy on his massacring spree.

[pErvinalia]

I see the hospital is called the 'Bronx-Lebanon Hospital'. I knew this was a terrorist incident!

[cronus]

I see the hospital is called the 'Bronx-Lebanon Hospital'. I knew this was a terrorist incident!

There'll be renewed calls for a Ground Zero Mosque in NY by the Muslims there after this incident.

[Brian Peacock]

Little Rock shooting of 25 at rap show prompts call to curb growing violence.

[pErvinalia]

Violence can only be curbed with more guns!

[laklak]

Well, there ain't nothing more peaceful than a dead man.

[Brian Peacock]

Very 'Alan Ladd'