Both the staff and patients of Jacob's Hospital in New York are shocked, following Tuesday afternoon's shooting in the emergency room.
According to witnesses and video footage of the incident, a black-clad man in a hoodie and mask waiting at the hospital's front desk suddenly pulled out a gun and shot in cold blood another blue-shirted patient who was in the hospital being treated for a previous injury.
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The victim appears to run around the waiting area seeking cover as the stranger shoots him, while other people, including a woman with a child, are in the room.
The suspect then runs away and for now evades capture.
According to authorities, the gunman was at the Bronx hospital around 12:30 p.m. (local time, 7:30 p.m. ET) seeking a friend who was arrested and possibly hospitalized there when he got into an argument in the waiting area with the victim , whom he appeared to know.
The suspect fired four shots at the 35-year-old victim, wounding him in the arm. The victim received immediate first aid and his injury is of no concern according to doctors, and local media reports that the 35-year-old survived a shooting last year.
After the incident, hospital staff asked management to install metal detectors at the entrance.
Source: protothema.gr
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