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Police: Gunman wounds 3 at Alabama hospital →
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabama say a man opened fire in a hospital, wounding an officer and two employees before he was fatally shot by police.
Birmingham Police Sgt. Johnny Williams says the officer and employees suffered injuries that are not considered life-threatening.
Williams says police were called because a man with a gun was walking through St. Vincent’s Hospital on Saturday morning. When he was confronted by officers, he started shooting and wounded one of the officers. That’s when the second officer shot and killed the man.
Detectives are still working to determine why the armed man was in the hospital.
Victims - Sandy Hook Elementary, Connecticut
Charlotte Bacon, 6
Daniel Barden, 7
Olivia Engel, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 6
Dylan Hockley, 6
Madeleine F. Hsu, 6
Catherine V. Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Jesse Lewis, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Grace McDonnell, 7
Emilie Parker, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Caroline Previdi, 6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Aveille Richman, 6
Benjamin Wheeler, 6
Allison N. Wyatt, 6
Rachel Davino, 29
Dawn Hochsprung, 47 (principal)
Anne Marie Murphy, 52
Lauren Russeau, 30 (substitute teacher)
Mary Sherlach, 56 (counselor)
Victoria Soto, 27 (teacher)
We should be focusing on the victims and their families… we should be focusing on the children that saw and heard the horror as it was happening… we should be focusing on making sure mental health services are available to everyone and that everyone gets the proper diagnosis and treatment… we should be focusing on not turning the perpetrators of such heinous acts into overnight celebrities… Gun control can wait… Events like these bring on social and mental disorders in these still developing children… and then the cycle begins all over again… Help the Children First!
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