The official, who was killed in the Pennsylvania hospital covering, was felled by police fire, says public prosecutor

York, Pa. (AP) -A policeman who was killed when he reacted to a hospital deposit in Pennsylvania was hit by a shotgun explosion that was fired by another official who also met the attacker when he held a Hospitor Geisel in his head with a weapon.

The attacker and the West York Patrolman Andrew W. Duarte were killed on February 22nd at the shots at the UPMC Memorial Hospital in York, while several other officials and hospital workers were injured.

The disclosure that duarte was killed by the police of the police came when the district prosecutor of York County, Tim Barker, announced the knowledge of his investigation and found the fault for the death of duarte against the attacker.

This man, Diogenes Archangel Ortiz (49), was shot when he tried to leave the intensive care unit with a hospital employee with a zipper and a weapon that was already emptied by bullets. Then Barker said that the officers will release a flood of shots.

He said that the responding officials who were waiting directly in front of the doors of the intensive care unit fired 22 times and beat Archangel-Portiz at least 15 times. The employee of the zipper was not hit, but the shotgun of an officer who met Archangel Ortizer also failed and wounded a second officer, said Barker.

Barker called the officers who risked her life for the hostages and did not know that the attacker's weapon was already emptied by bullets. He called her actions “100% justified and legally appropriate”.

“I looked at every moment of the video and saw on the face of every person this willingness in which I can run in the way of shots and potential death. They were ready to put their lives down for every single person in this hospital,” said Barker.

Hundreds of officers took part in Duarte's funeral in February and remembered him as a committed civil servant who died as a hero.

Archangel-Ortiz “triggered a stream of evil” and caused Duarte's death during a siege in which he persecuted several hospital employees and fired his gun into several, one hit one in the leg, said Barker.

The attack occurred, after the Archangel-Portiz had learned that the woman he lived with after a week of treatment had died in the hospital, Barker said and added that the weapon used in the attack was stolen in 2017.

He said Archangel-Ortiz was sick when a doctor told him that the woman had been moved to the hospital of the hospital.

Moments later he showed the weapon and announced: “We will talk about that,” said Barker. Archangel-Ortiz shot onto the doctor, grazed his arm and pierced a jacket. The doctor wrote colleagues about the danger and fled from the intensive care unit.

What was followed was a chaotic series of events in which Erzel-Ortiz threatened hospital employees and made a hospital employee with a zipper. A worker he shot into the leg, and joined in a bathroom.

Barker said that the Architectural Organization called his brother during the siege and told him: “That's how I go out.”

At some point, Archangel-Ortiz fired his 9 mm pistol three times on an officer who tried to enter the intensive care unit, and missed every three times, said Barker. In another, he pointed out to a hospital employee who had broken out of her zippers and had fired three times, just to hear a click noise because the weapon was already empty, he said.

The police tried to speak to Archangel Ortiz, said Barker when they also organized teams in the doors of the intensive care unit and formulated a plan to enter the intensive care unit behind a tactical sign.

Then Ichzenangel authorities tried to leave the intensive care unit with an employee with a zipper and told her that she should bring him to where most people are, “said Barker.

Barker said there were no warning signs, Archangel-Ortiz would be violent and they had no details why he did what he did and noticed: “Sometimes there is no” why “and that Archangel authorities” was ready to take hostages and kill people “.

Some of the surviving nurses have shared their accounts on social media, disclosed the injuries and treatment and how the attack pursued the survivors. The attack emphasized increasing violence against US health professions and the challenges of protection.

The nurse Tosha Trostle said that Archangel-Ortiz had held her with a gun held, the arms that had hidden behind her back when they walked through a door and came across a phalanx of officers.

She said she asked Erzengel Ortiz to let her go and he pushed the weapon against her neck and spine. She heard shots and fell to the ground under his body.

“The officials told me that I should run. I struggled to get out of him,” wrote Trostle. “I remember his slim cold hand against my face when I pushed away with my feet.”

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Scolforo reported from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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