STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images(BOSTON) — A doctor was shot Tuesday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, authorities said.
The suspect entered the hospital asking for this doctor by name, Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said at a news conference at the hospital.
Police received a 911 call at 11:07 a.m. that a doctor had been shot on the second floor. Hospital president Dr. Betsy Nable said they would not be providing further details about this doctor.
Police soon found a man matching the suspect’s description dead in an examining room.
“They found who we believe to be the suspect inside an examining room with what appeared to be at this time clearly a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Evans said.
The shooting occurred in the Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center on the second floor, authorities said.
The Boston Police department tweeted that the “situation [is] under control,” and that the gun has been recovered.
“There has been a shooting in the Shapiro building, and the suspect has been apprehended,” the hospital said in a statement earlier Tuesday. “The Shapiro building is no longer in lockdown. More information will be shared as it becomes available.”
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