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Details Emerge in Deadly Shooting at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center
Police officers outside Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center on Friday after a gunman opened fire inside the building, killing one person.CreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times
By Annie Correal and William K. Rashbaum
As the police in New York continued investigating a deadly shooting at a Bronx hospital, chilling details emerged about how the gunman had stormed into his onetime workplace and shot seven people on Friday, killing one, before taking his own life.
A police official said the preliminary investigation showed how the gunman, Dr. Henry Bello, had entered Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center and opened fire, believing that his co-workers had played a role in his termination in 2015.
On Friday, a surveillance camera captured Dr. Bello entering the hospital through a rear entrance on Selwyn Avenue in a white lab coat with a hooded sweatshirt underneath it, covering his head, said the police official, who was not authorized to discuss the case publicly. He carried a cardboard box large enough to conceal a rifle.
Dr. Bello headed to the 16th and 17th floors. A nurse on the 16th floor told the police he exchanged smiles with her before confronting a doctor. The nurse said Dr. Bello shouted at the doctor to “Come here.”
Dr. Henry Bello
When the doctor refused, Dr. Bello pulled out his rifle and started firing, the police official said. That doctor told investigators Dr. Bello seemed agitated as he drew the gun and said to him, “Why didn’t you help me out when I was getting in trouble?”
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That doctor recalled pulling out his cellphone to call 911, and Dr. Bello ordering him to put the phone down. Then he started firing, missing the doctor but wounding several others.
“There was blood everywhere,” the official said of the scene.
The police official said the doctor who was fatally shot on the 17th floor, Tracy Sin-Yee Tam, 32, had been hit in the wrist by a bullet, but it had ricocheted off the bone and traveled up her arm and into her armpit. Another police official said she may have also been shot in the abdomen. The New York City medical examiner’s office has not yet made public the cause of death; an autopsy was performed but the findings are still being reviewed.
Of the six people wounded in the shooting, two had been transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital by Sunday and remained in critical but stable condition. They had injuries to the brain and liver. Four patients remained at Bronx-Lebanon, where they were in stable condition. They were medical residents, a medical student and a patient. They were recovering from injuries to the abdomen, neck, thigh and hand, hospital officials said.
Dr. Bello, 45, had resigned after an accusation of workplace sexual harassment and other disruptions in 2015. He accused one doctor in particular of encouraging colleagues to complain about him, which he believed led to his departure, the police official said. According to hospital officials, that doctor worked on the 16th and 17th floors but was not in the hospital on the day of the shooting.
Dr. Tracy Sin-Yee Tam was killed in the shooting.
Hannah Alani and Vivian Wang contributed reporting.
A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A18 of the New York edition with the headline: Details Arise In Shooting At a Hospital In the Bronx. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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