A man armed with a pistol and carrying zip ties entered a Pennsylvania hospital바카라s intensive care unit Saturday and took staff members hostage before he was killed by police in a shootout that also left an officer dead, authorities said.
Three workers at UPMC Memorial Hospital, including a doctor, a nurse and a custodian, and two other officers were shot and wounded in the attack, York County District Attorney Tim Barker said. A fourth staffer was injured in a fall.
Barker added that while the investigation is in its early stages, it appears Archangel-Ortiz had previous contact with the hospital바카라s ICU earlier in the week for 바카라a medical purpose involving another individual바카라 and he intentionally targeted the workers there.
No one answered the door Saturday at an address in York believed to be that of Archangel-Ortiz.
The officer who died was identified as Andrew Duarte of the West York Borough Police Department.
We all have broken hearts and are grieving at his loss,바카라 West York Borough Manager Shawn Mauck told The Associated Press.
Duarte was a law enforcement veteran who joined the department in 2022 after five years with the Denver Police Department, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He described receiving a 바카라hero award바카라 in 2021 from Mothers Against Drunk Driving for his work in impaired driving enforcement for the state of Colorado.
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Duarte also worked as a patrol officer in Denver, was highly regarded for his work and was close friends with other officers, the department there said in a statement.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said he met Saturday evening with Duarte바카라s parents and fellow officers who were wounded.
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At a makeshift memorial on the front steps of the West York Borough Police Department, Linda Shields dropped off roses Saturday and dabbed tears as she thought of her son, a police officer in Maryland.
"He was so young,바카라 Shields said of Duarte. 바카라It makes no sense at all.바카라
Shapiro called the attack on police and health care workers 바카라the act of a coward.바카라
UPMC Memorial is a five-story, 104-bed hospital that opened in 2019 in York, a city of about 40,000 people known for its creation of York Peppermint Patties in 1940.
The shooting is part of a wave of gun violence in recent years that has swept through U.S. hospitals and medical centers, which have struggled to adapt to the growing threats.
Such attacks have helped make health care one of the nation바카라s most violent fields, with workers suffering more nonfatal injuries from workplace violence than workers in any other profession, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 2023, a shooter killed a security guard in the lobby of New Hampshire바카라s state psychiatric hospital before being fatally shot by a state trooper. In 2022, a man killed two workers at a Dallas hospital while there to watch his child바카라s birth.
In May of that year, a man opened fire in a medical center waiting room in Atlanta, killing one woman and wounding four. And just one month later, a gunman killed his surgeon and three other people at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, medical office because he blamed the doctor for his continuing pain after an operation.
