The suspected shooter, wearing body armor and armed with multiple weapons, was captured after Philadelphia police shot him.
A Philadelphia hospital nursing assistant wearing scrubs and body armor shot a co-worker to death inside the medical facility early Monday before fleeing and wounding two police officers in a gunfight, authorities said.
The suspect, a 55-year-old who may have entered Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Center City in ways that only employees can access, fatally shot a 43-year-old fellow certified nursing assistant on the ninth floor and then took off in a U-Haul van, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a news conference later Monday.
About an hour after the killing, police spotted the suspect, who opened fire on four responding officers, wounding two of them, Outlaw said. All four returned fire.Pedestrians walk past Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, on Monday. Police said a nurse fatally shot his co-worker at the hospital and was later captured after a gunfight with police that wounded two officers.
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