Two employees were killed in a shooting inside a hospital in Dallas, Texas, and the gunman fired shots and was taken into custody by police, authorities said.
The shooting took place around 11:00 a.m. on Saturday (5:00 p.m. in Lisbon) inside the Methodist Health System, according to hospital spokesman Ryan Owens.
A police officer “arrived at the scene, confronted the suspect and shot him, wounding him,” Owens said in a statement in which the hospital said he was still mourning the deaths.
“The Methodist Health System family is heartbroken by the loss of two of our beloved team members,” according to a statement attributed to hospital leadership. “Our entire organization is mourning this unimaginable tragedy,” he added.
So far, the names of the victims and the positions they held in the hospital, as well as the name of the suspect, have not been released.
The suspect was taken to another hospital in police custody, Ryan Owens said, without disclosing the severity of the injuries.
The United States has recorded serious shootings this year, such as the massacre at the Uvalde school, also in Texas, where 19 students and two teachers died in May, and the attack perpetrated by a 15-year-old teenager, who killed five in the capital. of North Carolina on October 13.
In response to the latest shooting, US President Joe Biden again urged Congress to restrict the sale of assault weapons, already approved by the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.
The United States has recorded more than 500 “mass shootings” across the country this year, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, which considers attacks with at least four victims to be “mass” and does not include the perpetrator of the shootings. dead or wounded.
Source: TSF
