Deadly shooting outside Massachusetts hospital
Hospital Safety Insider, March 24, 2016
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A 30-year-old man was shot and killed on March 22 in what police are calling a "targeted event" outside the doors of Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to a report in the Boston Herald.
Cambridge police were outside the hospital and searching video evidence in the case. Residents quoted in the report said they heard 10 or 11 gunshots shortly before 10 p.m. A second man was hospitalized with a leg wound, the report said.
The hospital itself remained open during the incident, according to the report.
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