Suspect in hospital shooting kills himself
Emergency Management Alert, September 23, 2003
A man suspected of shooting and wounding a physician at a suburban Los Angeles hospital killed himself September 21 outside a fast food restaurant, the Associated Press reports.
Police had been searching for Eugene Guevara, 73, in connection with the September 19 shooting of a doctor at Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center, where Guevara was once a patient.
Guevara shot himself in the stomach and, after authorities arrived, shot himself in the head. He was taken to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where he died. No one else was injured.
The gun recovered outside the restaurant near downtown Los Angeles was the same caliber as the weapon used in the hospital shooting.
Police locked down the hospital after the shooting and spent hours looking for Guevara, who was identified by hospital employees from a surveillance tape. Reynaldo Hernandez, MD, who works in the hospital's urology department, was in stable condition at the hospital Sunday after being shot three times, said a hospital spokeswoman. It was unknown when Guevara had last been admitted to the hospital or whether he was one of Hernandez's patients.
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