New York Daily News – by NINA GOLGOWSKI
A gunman opened fire at a Reno hospital Monday afternoon killing one person and critically injuring two others before taking his own life in an attack believed to have not been entirely random.
The suspected shooter at one of Renown Regional Medical Center’s medical buildings was found dead by a self-inflicted gunshot wound not long after authorities arrived at the scene, Reno police told The News.
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The surviving victims’ conditions and the cause of the shooting, believed to have been commited by one individual, were not immediately known by police.
Officer Dianna Geschieider described the shooting as taking place on the third floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine just after 2 p.m. PST.
“The situation is stabilized,” Geschieider told The News at approximately 3:30 p.m., adding that the victims had been transferred to nearby emergency rooms.
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Police went room-to-room evacuating the hospital. The shooting allegedly took place on the third floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine just after 2 p.m. PST.
Their condition and the cause of the shooting, believed to have been commited by one individual, were not immediately known by police.
The yet-to-be identified shooter was only identified as a male with the victims’ next of kin not yet notified, Reno Public Information Officer Sharon Spangler told The News.
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Officers escort witnesses to a bus at the Renown Regional Medical Center after a lone gunman shot and injured four people before killing himself on Tuesday.
Daranda Cone, who was arriving to the medical center around 2 p.m., told RJG that she saw one of the victims being transported by hospital staff.
“I saw this woman with blood all over her being rushed past me to the ER,” she told the station.
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