The vulnerability of health care facilities was highlighted by a shooter who killed four people and then himself Wednesday at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. FOX13
. The assailant got inside a building on the Saint Francis Hospital campus with little trouble, just hours after buying an AR-style rifle, authorities said.DID THE GUNMAN HAVE TO PASS THROUGH SECURITY?
"It is an entry that is open to the public," Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin told reporters Thursday. "He was able to walk in without any type of challenge."It was a short walk from that entrance to the office area where Louis fatally shot his primary target, Dr. Preston Phillips. Police said Phillips recently performed surgery on Louis and that Louis blamed the doctor for chronic pain he still suffered.
From official accounts, the reaction time of officers could not have been much better. Wendell said officers responded to the shooting within minutes and that the shooter apparently killed himself as police approached.Yes, because some urgent medical situations require patients to be moved quickly. But some hospitals, especially ones that have dealt with violence on their grounds, have upgraded security in recent years.
Nearly 60 percent of those shootings were inside hospitals, and around 40 were outside on hospital grounds, the guide said.
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