3 killed in Ga. hospital shooting spree

[liberal4truth]

3 killed in Ga. hospital shooting spree

By KATE BRUMBACK,

Associated Press Writer

Thu Mar 27, 2008.

COLUMBUS, Ga. - A retired teacher bearing a grudge over his mother's
treatment at the hospital where she died fatally shot one of her
nurses, another employee and a man outside Thursday before police shot
him, authorities said.

Charles Johnston, 63, is being charged with murder and will be turned
over to police after an overnight stay in another hospital, where he
was treated for a shoulder wound, Police Chief Ricky Boren said.

The chief said the gunman arrived at Doctors Hospital with three
pistols, including a 9mm automatic and a .38-caliber revolver, and
went to the fifth-floor intensive care unit where his mother had been
in 2004.

"He blamed a male nurse. He didn't think his mother had been properly
cared for," Boren said.

More at:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080328/ap_on_re_us/hospital_shootings

[Indy Lurker]

1. Why isn't this hospital a gun free zone.

If this was a gun free zone, it would have been illegal for Charles Johnston to bring a gun into the hospital.

[SteveM]

2. Yeah, those sign are cheap and would have prevented this tragedy.

[chunkstyle5]

3. Yes, it's a shame...

that there were no concealed-carry permit holders there to stop this guy, like in the Colorado church.