Fatal shootings at Johns Hopkins Hospital

[spunkygirl]

So heartbreaking

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_1...-10391704.html

[Marvo301]

What a horrible and senseless tragedy.

[catlover79]

It also says something about the sad state of hospital security. I mean, this isn't some little country hospital - this is Johns Hopkins, one of the biggest and most famous in the world. Scary.

[Marvo301]

Originally Posted by catlover79

It also says something about the sad state of hospital security. I mean, this isn't some little country hospital - this is Johns Hopkins, one of the biggest and most famous in the world. Scary.

That's scary! I wonder how a guy can just walk in there with a gun in his waistband!!! Yikes!

[catlover79]

It's like you're not safe anywhere anymore.

[Family Ties Forever!]

Awful.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_1...-10391704.html

September 16, 2010 5:43 PM
Johns Hopkins Shooting Turns Prestigious Hospital into Crime Scene
Posted by Aina Hunter

Baltimore (CBS/AP) One of the nation's most prestigious hospitals, Johns Hopkins, became a crime scene today, when the distraught son of a woman hospitalized there shot her and her doctor before turning the gun on himself.

The shooter and his mother, Jean Davis, died. The doctor, David B. Cohen, underwent surgery and was expected to survive.

Baltimore police identified the shooter as Paul Warren Pardus of Arlington, Va. They say he had become emotionally distraught over his mother's condition.

Dr. Cohen, an orthopedic surgeon, collapsed just outside Davis's hospital room.

A nurse at the hospital said Pardus was upset about his mother's treatment was threatening to jump out of a window before the shooting occurred, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Michelle Burrell, who works in a hospital coffee shop, said she'd heard a similar story.

"Basically, he was upset about his mother being paralyzed by the doctor," Burrell said. "It's crazy."