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One injured in shooting outside ER at Texas hospital

Hospital Safety Insider, March 20, 2014

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One person is reported being injured after a shooting at a Texas hospital ER late Tuesday night, according to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
 
There are very few details about the incident, but the paper reported that the shooting outside the ER at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo happened around 10:30 p.m. An unknown person suffered what was reported to be non-life threatening injuries after a police officer opened fire.
 
The police officer was not injured, the paper reported. According to the report, police representatives said officers were responding to a call at the ER but declined to elaborate on details about the nature of the shooting, but called the scene “intense.”


 



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