Doctor, 2 Others Shot at Mercy-Fitzgerald Hospital Campus, Lockdown in Place

[Electric Monk]

Source: NBC

A doctor and two other people have been shot at a wellness center on the campus of Mercy-Fitzgerald Hospital, Delaware County authorities tell NBC10. Authorities are still classifying this as an active shooter situation.

The shooting took place on the third floor of the Sister Marie Lenahan Wellness Center located along the 1500 block of Lansdowne Avenue in Darby, Pa., officials say. That's located across from the hospital on its campus. The Delaware County Prosecutor's Office says a 911 call came in at 2:19 p.m. with the caller saying a doctor had been shot. Sources say the physician had been hit in the head by the gunfire.

One of the victims has been taken to the trauma center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in nearby Philadelphia. It wasn't immediately clear where the other two victims were being treated.

A suspect was taken into custody, officials said. Police are still working to determine whether that person is the only one involved. It is also unclear whether the suspect was shot.

Read more: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Mercy-Fitzgerald-Hospital-on-Lockdown-268489642.html

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update: Worker Dead, 2 Others Shot at Mercy-Fitzgerald Hospital Campus

A woman has been killed, a doctor shot and the suspect critically injured in a shooting inside a wellness center on the campus of Mercy-Fitzgerald Hospital in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

The shooting took place in a psychiatric ward on the third floor of the Sister Marie Lenahan Wellness Center located along the 1500 block of Lansdowne Avenue in Darby, officials say. That's located across from the hospital on its campus and is attached to the main building through a pedestrian bridge.

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[louis-t]

1. Right wing solution: arm all doctors in 5.4.3.2...

[Skittles]

5. and if the shooter is a doctor

arm all the patients

NRA wet dream: everyone paranoid, everyone armed

[louis-t]

6. Armed to the teeth, living behind barbed wire, and

shooting anything that moves, I always say.

[ManiacJoe]

7. Well, not necessarily all of them...

Officials believe that suspect was shot by the doctor who returned fire from his own gun.

[louis-t]

8. I see, so after he was shot in the head (see article)

he drew his weapon and fired at the bad guy? How Chuck Norris-ee.

[ManiacJoe]

9. Grazed in the head, but yes that would appear to be the case.

[louis-t]

11. According to this article, the patient was still standing

after being shot. Other employees "wrestled him to the ground" and took his gun.]

http://news.yahoo.com/doctor-fired-back-gunman-hospital-attack-214524705.html

[ManiacJoe]

12. Does this surprise you?

Handguns are notoriously poor man-stoppers. The vast majority of those who stop their attack after being shot do so because they don't want to be shot again.

Both the doctor (grazed in the head) and the patient/attacker continued the fight after being shot. This is not uncommon.

[louis-t]

13. What we don't know is who shot first.

[NickB79]

14. The patient/shooter went into surgery for gunshot wounds

Per Yahoo News.

So SOMEONE shot him several times.

[IronGate]

18. So you do admit that the doctor may have prevented a mass shooting

by shooting the suspect? Even after being grazed in the head, he drew his LEGALLY carried firearm and shot the suspect multiple times, thus preventing what could have been a mass casualty event.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/24/shooting-wellness-center/13113555/

[sarisataka]

19. I wonder if the doctor will be fired

According to the article he was violating hospital policy

A sign tells visitors to the wellness center to check weapons at the front, a medical technician told The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Hospital policy allows only on-duty law enforcement officers to carry weapons on campus, a Mercy Health System spokeswoman told the Associated Press.

[IronGate]

20. If they do try to fire him,

I can well imagine the outrage of the employees, the same employee's lives the doctor may well have saved.

[sarisataka]

21. It is an interesting conundrum

Praise the doctor for stopping further injuries and deaths

Or

Punish him for violating a policy meant to prevent injury and death

[IronGate]

22. What could happen is the hospital admin.

will put a very mild letter of reprimand in his file and that will be the end of it.

[louis-t]

23. As I said, we do not know who shot first.

The guy could have tried to draw his weapon to 'save the day' and caused the shots to be fired. Witness says they opened the door, saw the gunman standing with gun drawn, and later heard shots. Why do I always envision gun crazies responding to these posts as having drool coming out of their mouth and their eyes rolling around in their heads and veins sticking out of their necks as they pace back and forth, barking.

[IronGate]

24. Oh geez, you're really reaching to blame the DR. aren't you?

Do you have any idea of how stupid that sounds?
You're really trying to place the blame for the death of the woman on the Dr?
That's some sick shit there.

[Lurks Often]

26. Actually we do know who shot first

Plott shot the case worker first, which caused Silverman to crouch down behind his desk, Plott's shots grazed Silverman in the head and thumb before Silverman shot back.

"Yeadon Police Chief Donald Molineux said that “without a doubt, I believe the doctor saved lives.”

“Without that firearm, this guy (the patient) could have went out in the hallway and just walked down the offices until he ran out of ammunition,” the chief said.

http://www.delcotimes.com/general-news/20140725/shooting-at-fitz-probe-now-seeks-cause-for-gunfight-between-patient-doctor

[IronGate]

27. Turns out that Plotts shot and killed the case worker first

before the Dr. deployed his firearm and shot Plotts.
Wanna revise your post yet?

[Aristus]

2. Law-Abiding Gun-Owners triumph again!

I'm sure those medical people were trying to deprive him of his God-given rights...

[santamargarita]

3. More right-wing terrorism!

[think]

4. Wish America could become saner and have less of these shootings.

Very sad....

[Judi Lynn]

10. One dead in shooting at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in the Philadelphia suburbs

One dead in shooting at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in the Philadelphia suburbs
By Abby Ohlheiser July 24 at 4:12 PM 


A hospital in the Philadelphia suburbs was on lockdown Thursday after a multi-victim shooting.

In a statement to reporters, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan said that one female hospital employee died in the shooting, which occurred in the psychiatric unit of a wellness center on the hospital campus. Another victim was a doctor at the hospital, he added. Whelan described the suspect as having “psychiatric issues.”

In a later update to reporters, Whelan said that officials believe the injured doctor may have shot the suspect multiple times after the suspect opened fire. The suspect was then reportedly subdued by other employees of the hospital. Investigators hadn’t yet interviewed the doctor at the time of Whelan’s update.

In all, three people were shot at the outpatient facility on the Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital campus in Darby, Penn., including the suspect. Whelan did not immediately identify either of the victims, or the suspected shooter.

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/07/24/three-people-reported-shot-at-mercy-fitzgerald-hospital-in-the-philadelphia-suburbs/#

[valerief]

15. Well, thank goodness no one's 2nd amendment rights were threatened.

[KinMd]

16. Actually it was a doctor who shot the gunman after he killed a caseworker

the NRA is going to use this as an example why people should be armed

[Niceguy1]

17. in this case

The doctor being armed worked out.

[SecularMotion]

25. When you get into a gun fight with your patient

you've pretty much failed as a psychiatrist.