Hospitals, like schools, are not typically designed to guard against the threat of a determined gunman entering the building to take lives
Wednesday at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 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 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. Hospital officials planned to review their security procedures in the days ahead. There “will be a thousand questions” to answer regarding the shooting, Robertson said.
Now security officers are stationed at every entrance, and the hospital has a system that electronically notifies employees of any armed intruders.From 2000 to 2011, there were 154 hospital-related shootings, according to a 2017 guide from the International Association of Emergency Medical Services Chiefs that cited the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Also, hospital buildings are often labyrinths, with many doors that lead to more doors. The Tulsa police chief said that was the case in the shooting on Wednesday, when the building's vastness created echoes, which made it harder for officers and others inside to know precisely where the gunshots were coming from.Even before the 2019 shooting at Chicago Mercy, the hospital had begun training employees about what to do during an active gunman situation.
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