Munster police were dispatched to the hospital about 1:15 a.m. Tuesday due to a physical disturbance between a patient and an employee. Two security officers responded to the scene. Police were told prior to arrival that shots had been fired.
Upon arrival to the patient room, police found that the patient and one security officer sustained fatal gunshot wounds.
Authorities say a man has died after being shot by police and hospital security officers during an altercation in an Ohio hospital emergency room.
A man has died while a female security guard was seriously injured in a shooting outside a Paris hospital on Monday.
Former NFL player Phillip Adams fatally shot five people, including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two grandchildren before killing himself early Thursday.
Police officers will now use handheld metal detectors to screen every adult visitor and patient walking into the emergency room.
This comes about two weeks after police arrested Bryan Carroll, who detectives say brought guns, body armor and explosives to the hospital.
A man was arrested Thursday after police said he brought guns, body armor and bombs to the University of Kentucky’s Albert B. Chandler Hospital.
Last year, nurses in Minnesota asked M Health Fairview administrators to provide better protection in the hospitals’ parking areas. They described “unsafe and mindboggling obstacles” getting to and from their cars, hour-long waits between shuttles and security escorts and being dropped at “deserted parking lots in the dark without overhead lights.”
Fifty-two paramedics and emergency medical technicians have been attacked so far this year — a trend which, if it continues, would result in a serious spike in assaults on such frontline workers, a union head told The Post.
The nurse told authorities she believed Opiacha would have killed her if other staff had not intervened. She was taken to a hospital and treated for injuries including a concussion, black eye, facial swelling and a bruised knee.
The nurses suffered cuts to their head, neck and back areas, authorities said. All three required treatment and were later released.