Today, 8 of August, about 9.30 a.m., the police received a call about the shooting at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla.
The incident is being investigated. Law enforcement officers sweep the building. Currently, the medical center closed.
UPD: As reported by News 4 police sources, fire was opened by the man on the 4th floor of the hospital. According to unconfirmed reports, he first shot his wife — patient medical institution, and then committed suicide.
«They say he shot his wife and held her hostage. I also heard that he shot himself, because he was in a desperate situation,» he told Lohud patient Jaziri Escobar, handing heard from other patients and nurses.
UPD2: the Police confirmed that fire was opened by the 70-year-old man who shot and killed a patient of the medical center in her bed. And then killed himself. The deceased was also about 70 years. According to official data, men and women were «family relationships».
Westchester Medical Center is located approximately 48 km North of new York city, in Westchester County.
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If the fire is confirmed, it will be the second incident in a hospital in new York from June 2017. Then a former employee of Bronx-Lebanon Hospital came to the clinic with a rifle AR-15 and opened fire on the people. As a result, he killed a doctor, wounded 5 officers of the hospital and the patient before you kill yourself.
