Gunfire erupts in medical building and a hospital worker is dead and psychiatric patient is in custody amid all this an armed doctor may have saved the day. All this as investigators try to diagnose what sparked todays deadly violence. Thursday night, jim is off. Im Monica Malpass, the big story on action news is deadly shooting at mercy fitzgerald hospital and weve learned more about the fire fight including names of all people involved. In the immediate aftermath this is how it looked as an ambulance pulled up to the hospital of the university of pennsylvania. Both doctor and suspect exchanged fire with were taken there for treatment. As for original scene in the 1500 block of lansdowne avenue darby, Delaware County and the shooting did not take place in mercy fitzgerald Hospital Building itself but third floor of Doctors Offices across the street. And in what is known as wellness center. That is where action News Reporter chad pradelli is live tonight and dann cuellar leads to cover
Perpetrator that has been transported to the university of Pennsylvania Hospital where he is listed in Critical Condition and being right now evaluated as to his condition we have a Police Officer there. We have a Police Officer with the doctor that was injured. At this point were still not releasing the names pending notification of the next of kin, certainly a very serious situation. The the happies opened but the happies on divert right now and they are diverting patient toss other area hospitals but we would expect the hospital to be out of divert in the next few hours. The building behind me at least is temporarily closed which is the medical office building, as well as the Treatment Center for psychiatric and other medical offices. Reporter who shot the suspect, how was the the suspect shot. Were still reviewing that. We believe at this point preliminary information, it needs to be confirmed, that there was a shooting, between the doctor and the individual patients. So, we are ve
Doctor pulls his own weapon and shoots back. When they told me i didnt believe it at first. The doctor and the accused shooter are injured an woman is dead. We have Live Team Coverage of what weve learned about all three of them tonight. We begin with developing story in delaware county. A shooting on the campus of mercy fitzgerald hospital investigators say a patient walked into a Doctors Office this afternoon. Pulled a gun and started firing. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. We have Live Team Coverage of the shooting that left a caseworker dead an doctor injured. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson explains what happened and drew dickman has more on the suspec suspected gunman. We begin with shawnette live in darby brrr row. Reporter the doctor has been identified as lee silverm silverman. He suffered a graze wound to the head at this hour were told he is giving statements to investigators. Now, we also know the caseworker killed is 53 year old theresa hunt. Why this patient allegedl
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Can you tell us about the victim . It was a female employee, that is all i can release at this time, i dont believe her next of kin has been notified im not going to comment. Was she im not going to comment, except to say this occurred in the psychiatric unit of the hospital. The doctor that suffered the graze wound we are told treated the suspect is that true. Im not going to comment on that. Is there a motive at this point, or a random shooting . We are not sure what occurred to precipitate this particular incident. We have the psychiatric concern but if there was a dispute that happened inside of that room that led to shots fired. What about the suspect . The suspect has a gunshot wound. Can you tell us how he got that . I cant comment on that at this time . Someone shot at the employee and someone else shot at the shooter . Ill give you more information as soon as i can. What is happening with moving people out of here the suspect has psychiatric issues. Again, we have a shooting i