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Man drives car into Ottawa children's hospital entrance

Healthcare Security Weekly, May 14, 2007

Police arrested a 29-year-old man after he allegedly drove his car into the doors of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario on May 7, reported CBC News. The man also is accused of firing a gun inside a hotel next door to the hospital.

Police said no one was hurt in the incident. Police dispatched more than 24 officers to the scene after receiving a call just before 3 a.m. that a vehicle had crashed into the hospital's front entrance.

A hosptial spokeswoman told the news service that an armed man was unable to enter the locked hospital, so he went to the nearby not-for-profit hotel for families of out-of-town paitents. He managed to get in through the side door.

Police said they received a report a shot was fired inside the hotel. They arrested the suspect inside a service room and recovered a rifle.

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