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Healthcare Security Weekly, April 7, 2008
A Columbus, GA hospital is reassessing its security procedures after a fatal shooting March 27.
Columbus police said a 63-year-old retired school teacher was reportedly angry about the way his late mother was treated at Doctors Hospital in 2004, according to news reports. Carrying two pistols and a revolver, the man killed a nurse and an administrative assistant on the fifth floor of the hospital, and then fatally shot a third person in the parking lot.
The gunman was shot by a plain clothes officer in the upper right shoulder and was taken to another hospital for treatment. Police say the man confessed to the shootings while being treated for that gunshot wound, reported the Ledger-Enquirer. He pled not guilty to three counts of murder and four counts of aggravated assault.
The man believed the nurse was responsible for his mother's death, although medical records show he never treated the woman, police said. He shot the other two people because he thought they were trying to stop him from leaving.
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