"I was naked on the bed and I had to jump up and put my clothes on," said the woman, who declined to give her name. "(A doctor) came in and said, 'There's somebody with a weapon, so we're gonna send some people in the room with you.' Everybody came in the room.'"</s>A former employee opened fire at Bronx Lebanon Hospital on Friday afternoon, killing one doctor and injuring 6 other people. Checkey Beckford reports.

What to Know A gunman shot seven people inside Bronx Lebanon Hospital, one of them fatally; the killed victim is a female doctor, sources say

The gunman has been identified as Dr. Henry Michael Bello, a former doctor at the hospital who resigned in 2015

People in the hospital described panic and terror as they either fled or barricaded themselves in rooms in the hospital

A doctor shot seven people inside a New York City hospital, one of them fatally, before turning the gun on himself in what appears to be a case of workplace violence Friday afternoon, officials say.

The assault rifle-wielding gunman at Bronx Lebanon Hospital was dressed in a white medical coat when he shot six people on the 16th floor of the hospital shortly before 3 p.m., NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said at a news briefing outside the hospital. A seventh victim, a female doctor named Tracy Sin-Yee Tam, was found killed on the 17th floor of the hospital.

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The shooter has been identified as Dr. Henry Michael Bello, a 45-year-old family medicine doctor formerly employed at the hospital, according to sources.

Authorities said Bello hid the rifle under the white medical lab coat he was wearing at the time. It's unclear exactly how he made it past security, but authorities said he had his old badge on him.

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Bello went to the 16th floor of the hospital and asked for a specific doctor, a senior law enforcement official told News 4. When he was told that doctor wasn't there he became angry and started shooting at everybody nearby, apparently at random, according to the official.

After shooting the victims -- many if not all doctors -- Bello tried to set himself on fire on the 17th floor of the hospital, O'Neill said. The hospital's fire alarm system activated, and FDNY firefighters went on standby outside the hospital as NYPD continued its active shooter protocol inside.

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By the time police found Bello on the 17th floor, he was dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, O'Neill said. A photo provided by authorities shows him dead on the floor, wearing the bloodied doctor's coat. Authorities said his AR-15 was discovered near his body, as was the body of the female doctor who was killed.

Five staff members who were found on the 16th floor were in very critical condition Friday night, according to the hospital. They include family medicine doctors, medical students, medical residents and a gastroenterologist. Their injuries were described as wounds to the abdomen, chest and vital organs.

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The hospital said Friday night that the five staff members have had initial surgeries and will likely need additional surgeries in the coming days.

A patient who was also shot was in stable condition. Doctors believe he or she will not suffer any long-term injuries.

Officials said some of the victims sustained injuries trying to protect other staffers and patients.

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Mayor De Blasio speaks at a press conference outside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital Friday afternoon. (Published Friday, June 30, 2017)

A motive in the shootings remains unclear, but authorities say there is no apparent nexus to terror. Sources say Bello started working at the hospital in August 2014, then resigned six months later in February 2015 in lieu of being fired. Circumstances in the resignation weren't clear.

As NYPD's most-armed units responded to the active shooter situation, a sea of patrol and tactical vehicles gridlocked the streets around the hospital on Grand Concourse, and police surveyed the roof of the building with their guns drawn, Chopper 4 over the scene showed.

Dozens of police vehicles filled surrounding streets, which were wrapped in police tape. A line of ambulance stretched at least 10 ambulance slong outside the hospital.

Critical response units and other NYPD commands went floor by floor evacuating the hospital as they looked for the gunman.

A five-months pregnant woman was in the hospital's pediatrics unit with her fiance when they learned there was a shooter in the hospital.

"They said somebody's in there with a rifle shooting people," said the woman, who gave her name as Maya. "Everybody's panicking, everybody's scared."

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A pregnant woman and her partner describe the fear as people inside the emergency room of Bronx Lebanon Hospital were told there was an active shooter situation. (Published Friday, June 30, 2017)

"It was just a panicky rush and everybody was just getting down, and we just hear shots," said her fiance. "After the shots, everybody's just getting down. We just tried to run to the bathroom and close the door in the bathroom."

Maya said they were eventually led out of the hospital as they followed a group of nurses. It took them about an hour to get out.

Another patient in the hospital said on Twitter that "the last instructions we got were from the NYPD, when they cleared out the room and shut down our lights, they just told us to remain in."

Francisco Bodon, a patient at Bronx Lebanon, tells NBC New York sister station Telemundo 47 that he was in a room on the 10th floor when three gunshots rang out and then chaos erupted.

“There may have been more than three [shots], but people were screaming, crying and running around. It was very chaotic,” said Bodon.

He said three nurses came into the room he is sharing with another patient and locked themselves in the bathroom. Bodo locked the door to the room, noting the other patient had some sort of a spine injury and was unable to get up from his bed.

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center describes itself as the largest voluntary, not-for-profit health care system in the south and central Bronx.

The 120-year-old hospital, about a mile and a half north of Yankee Stadium, claims nearly 1,000 beds spread across multiple units. Its emergency room is among the busiest in New York City.

"In the middle of a place that people associate with care and comfort, it came out of nowhere, but even in the midst of this horror, there were many, many acts of heroism," de Blasio said as he thanked police and first responders.

Michael George, Ray Villeda and Checkey Beckford contributed reporting.

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A patient at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital describes the scene inside after a doctor opened fire. (In Spanish, via Telemundo 47) (Published Friday, June 30, 2017)

Person Wheeled Out in Stretcher During Hospital Shooting</s>NEW YORK (Reuters) - A doctor who had lost his job at a New York City hospital opened fire with an assault rifle inside the building on Friday, killing another physician and wounding six other people before taking his own life in a burst of apparent workplace-related violence, officials said.

The gunman, wearing a white medical lab coat, stalked two floors of the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, in the New York borough of the Bronx, and tried to set himself on fire before police searching the building found him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot, Police Commissioner James O'Neill said.

One female physician was shot to death, and six other people were wounded, five seriously, including one who was shot in the leg, O'Neill said at a news conference.

Mayor Bill de Blasio characterized the shooting as an "isolated incident" that appeared to be "a workplace-related matter." He said that it was "not an act of terrorism."

"One doctor is dead, and there are several doctors who are fighting for their lives right now amongst those who are wounded," de Blasio told reporters. "This is a horrific situation unfolding in the middle of a place that people associate with care and comfort."

O'Neill said the gunman was armed with an assault rifle.

Neither the mayor nor police immediately identified the suspect or any of the victims. O'Neill said the gunman was a former employee of the 972-bed hospital.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, in an interview with WABC News, identified the gunman as Dr. Henry Bello and said he had been fired by the hospital. Other media reports said Bello was 45 years of age.

The New York Times and the New York Daily News reported, citing unnamed sources, that Bello had resigned from the hospital rather than face termination over accusations of sexual harassment.

Bello had received a limited permit to practice as an international medical graduate in order to gain experience so he could be fully licensed, but that permit expired a year ago, the Times reported. It said he also had a pharmacy technician license from California. The Daily News said he had been a pharmacy tech at the hospital before he quit in 2015.

A native of Nigeria, Bello earned a medical degree from Ross University on the Caribbean island nation of Dominica and later worked briefly as a pharmacy technician for Metropolitan Hospital Center in Manhattan in 2012, according to David Wims, a lawyer who represented Bello in an unemployment insurance claim against that hospital.

In a telephone interview, Wims told Reuters Bello was injured on the job at Metropolitan a few months after being hired, then went on leave and never returned. In a decision upheld by the state's appellate court division, Bello ultimately was denied unemployment benefits on grounds he quit without good cause.

Wims said he remembered Bello as "an even-keeled, respectful, humble person" and knew nothing of his history at the Bronx hospital.

Details about the shooting were still sketchy.

Authorities said the rampage unfolded shortly before 3 p.m. when the gunman went on a rampage on the 16th and 17th floors of the hospital. He and the slain physician both were found on the 17th floor, while the six other victims were found on the 16th floor, O'Neill said.

The incident sent waves of panic throughout the hospital, and police swarmed the building searching for the gunman.

"People were running. People were afraid," said Jane Vachara, 50, a clerical associate on the ninth floor, who said she huddled with colleagues in a locker room for about an hour.

Adding to the pandemonium was the gunman's attempt to set himself ablaze, which apparently triggered the hospital's fire alarm system and halted elevator service, hampering efforts by first responders to reach victims and evacuate the building.

One ambulance worker, Robert Maldonado, told WCBS television that he and his partner had to carry a bleeding patient down nine flights of stairs to safety, applying pressure to the man's wound on the way down.

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, located about one mile (1.6 km) north of Yankee Stadium, is the largest voluntary, non-profit health care system serving the South and Central Bronx, as well as one of the city's biggest providers of outpatient services.</s>NEW YORK (AP) – The Latest on a shooting at Bronx Lebanon Hospital (all times local):

A law enforcement official says the gunman who opened fire at a New York City hospital was a doctor who formerly worked there.

The official says Dr. Henry Bello walked into Bronx Lebanon Hospital at about 2:50 p.m. Friday with a rifle concealed in his lab coat and opened fire, killing at least one person and injuring six others. He then apparently killed himself.

The official was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Bello was listed on the hospital’s website as a family medicine physician. It’s not clear when he left the hospital. Calls there rang unanswered.

Law enforcement official says gunman inside New York City hospital killed at least 1 before apparently killing self.

A New York City police spokesman says the gunman inside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital is dead.

New York Police Department spokesman J. Peter Donald tweeted Friday afternoon that the shooter had died. Police say at least two victims have been shot.

According to a law enforcement official, the shooter was wearing a lab coat and had the rifle concealed inside it. The official was not authorized to speak on an ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Police were still trying to identify how many people had been shot. Emergency crews had been kept from going inside the hospital while the shooter was at large.

Police say at least two people have been shot at a New York City hospital and the gunman is still at large.

The gunfire broke out at 2:50 p.m. Friday inside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital in the Bronx.

Television images showed the hospital surrounded by police cars and fire trucks. Police could be seen on the roof of the building, at one point, with their guns drawn.

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center describes itself as the largest voluntary, not-for-profit health care system in the south and central Bronx.

The 120-year-old hospital claims nearly 1,000 beds spread across multiple units. Its emergency room is among the busiest in New York City.

The hospital is about a mile and a half north of Yankee Stadium.

Police say multiple people have been shot at a New York City hospital.

The gunfire broke out at 2:50 p.m. Friday inside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital in the Bronx.

Police had no immediate information on whether anyone was killed.

Television images showed the hospital surrounded by police cars and fire trucks.</s>WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR:
• Up to seven people are reported to have been shot by a gunman in the Bronx Lebanon Hospital in the Bronx, in New York City;
• There are reports that three of the victims are doctors. Their condition is unknown as yet;
• The shooter is now dead, police confirmed;
• The AP has quoted a law enforcement official saying that the gunman killed at least one person before apparently killing himself;
• The shooter was a doctor who used to work there, a police official said;
• It is reported the shooter wore a white lab coat, and was armed with a rifle;

Update 10.02pm: The gunman who opened fire at a New York City hospital, killing at least one person, was a doctor who used to work there, a police official said.

Dr Henry Bello walked into Bronx Lebanon Hospital at about 2.50pm on Friday with a rifle concealed in his lab coat and opened fire, killing at least one person and injuring six others, before apparently killing himself.

Dr Bello was listed on the hospital's website as a family medicine physician.

It is not clear when he left the hospital.

Update 9.46pm: A man pulled a rifle from under his white lab coat and opened fire inside a Bronx hospital today, killing at least one person and wounding others before apparently taking his own life, police in New York said.

The gunfire broke out at 2.50pm inside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital, bringing police cars and fire vehicles rushing to the scene and sending officers onto the roof with their guns drawn as people inside the building were told to hide.

Officers went floor by floor looking for the gunman and reported just before 4pm that the shooter was dead inside the building.

A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that the gunman apparently killed himself.

According to the law enforcement official, the shooter was wearing a lab coat and had the rifle concealed.

The official was not authorised to discuss the still-unfolding investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Update 9.39pm: The gunman at the Bronx Lebanon Hospital in New York City killed one person and injured six, and was a former employee at the facility, The Associated Press has reported.

Update 9.28pm: The Associated Press is quoting a law enforcement official as saying that the New York hospital gunman killed at least one person before apparently turning the gun on himself.

Update 9.04pm: A New York City police spokesman has said that a gunman inside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital has been shot dead.

Update 8.55pm: Police say at least two people have been shot at a New York City hospital and the gunman is still at large.

The gunfire broke out at 2.50pm local time on Friday inside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital in the Bronx.

Police could be seen on the roof of the building, at one point, with their guns drawn.

Update 8.48pm: The New York Times is reporting that at least three doctors were shot inside Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in the Mount Hope area of the Bronx, according to a Fire Department official.

The condition of the doctors is not known.

The Times further reports that in a radio transmission, police described the gunman as a tall, thin man wearing a blue shirt and white lab coat.

Multiple people have been shot at a New York City hospital, police said.

The gunfire broke out at 2.50pm local time today inside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital in the Bronx.

Police had no immediate information on whether anyone was killed.

Television images showed the hospital surrounded by police cars and fire vehicles.

It is being reported the shooter or shooters are still at large, and may still be in the hospital.

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Centre describes itself as the largest voluntary, not-for-profit health care system in the south and central Bronx.

The 120-year-old hospital claims nearly 1,000 beds spread across multiple units.

Its emergency room is among the busiest in New York City.

The hospital is about a mile and a half north of Yankee Stadium.</s>NEW YORK (AP) – Police say at least two people have been shot at a New York City hospital and the gunman is still at large.

The gunfire broke out at 2:50 p.m. Friday inside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital in the Bronx.

Television images showed the hospital surrounded by police cars and fire trucks.

Police could be seen on the roof of the building, at one point, with their guns drawn.

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center describes itself as the largest voluntary, not-for-profit health care system in the south and central Bronx.

The 120-year-old hospital claims nearly 1,000 beds spread across multiple units. Its emergency room is among the busiest in New York City.

The hospital is about a mile and a half north of Yankee Stadium.

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The New York Police Department responded to an active shooter situation Friday afternoon inside a Bronx hospital.

The gunman, Dr. Henry Bello, a 45-year-old family medicine doctor, was said to be wearing a white doctor’s coat and carrying an M16 type rifle. Bello reportedly resigned from the Bronx Lebanon hospital in 2015 in lieu of termination.

He died from a self-inflicted gun shot wound after wounding 6 people and killing 1 woman inside the hospital. The deceased woman’s body was found next to the shooter’s body on the 17th floor, she had suffered multiple gun shot wounds.

The NYPD’s most heavily armed units responded after receiving reports of shots fired on the hospital’s 16th floor. The police discovered a trail of blood leading from the second floor of the hospital up to the 16th floor, where the shooter was believed to be barricaded.

A staff member told NBC News that the hospital is under lockdown, and footage from the NBC chopper shows a number of NYPD vehicles backed up in the streets surrounding the hospital and officers walking on the hospital’s roof.

Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].</s>A shootout was reported at New York City's Bronx Lebanon hospital.</s>The BRONX — Police are responding to reports of an active shooter at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center on Friday.

At least one person has been shot on the 16th floor of the hospital located at 1650 Grand Concourse, according to scanner reports.

NYPD in a tweet confirmed the ongoing situation. They told people to avoid the area around the hospital.</s>Multiple people were shot at New York's Bronx Lebanon Hospital on Friday, police said.

The NYPD responded to the shooting just before 3 p.m. on Friday afternoon. Officials said it was a "very active scene" at Bronx Lebanon and cautioned people to avoid the hospital and the surrounding area.

The shooter died at the hospital, an NYPD spokesman said.

Fire Department rescue workers were responding to the scene, a spokesman said

Bronx Lebanon Hospital did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated as it develops.
A doctor thought to be formerly employed with the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center kills one and wounds five others at the facility in New York City.