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OAKLAND, Pa. (AP) — Someone opened fire Thursday afternoon at a psychiatric
clinic outside Pittsburgh, injuring several people, police said.
Authorities did not say how many people were hit in the shooting at the
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Oakland. The Pittsburgh Post-
Gazette reported at least five people were shot.
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: Shots fired at Pa. psych clinic; injuries reported
: OAKLAND, Pa. (AP) — Someone opened fire Thursday afternoon at a psychiatric
: clinic outside Pittsburgh, injuring several people, police said.
: Authorities did not say how many people were hit in the shooting at the
: Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Oakland. The Pittsburgh Post-
: Gazette reported at least five people were shot.
: http://news.yahoo.com/shots-fired-pa-psych-clinic-injuries-repo
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man armed with two semiautomatic handguns entered the
lobby of a psychiatric clinic at the University of Pittsburgh on Thursday
and opened fire, killing one person and wounding several others before he
was shot dead, apparently by campus police, the mayor said.
Six people were wounded by the man's gunfire, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said. A
seventh suffered unspecified injuries but wasn't shot, officials said.
The mayor stopped short of confirming the gunman was fatally shot by at
least one University of Pittsburgh police officer who responded. But he
confirmed "police acted admirably and did engage in gunfire."
"There's no doubt that their swift response saved lives today," Ravenstahl
said.
One of the injured was a police officer who Ravenstahl said was grazed by a
bullet. Officials didn't say if that officer shot the gunman, whose identity
and relationship to the clinic, if any, weren't disclosed. The injured
people included employees and a visitor, said Dr. Donald Yealy, chair of
emergency medicine at the university's medical school.
Shooting witness Gregory Brant said he was in a waiting room on the first
floor of the clinic building when pandemonium broke out.
"We heard a bunch of yelling, some shooting, people yelling, 'Hide! Hide!"
he said. "Everyone's yelling, 'Stay down!'"
Brant, 53, and six other people, including a young girl and her parents,
barricaded themselves inside the waiting room. But he said they did not feel
safe because there were doors with windows along adjacent walls.
"The way the room was arranged, if he (the gunman) had gone to either window
and would have seen us in there, he could have done whatever he wanted,"
Brant said.
The group crouched in a corner, hoping the gunman wouldn't see them as he
went past, Brant said. The men in the group decided on the spot that if the
gunman entered the room, they would rush him.
"We were kind of sitting ducks," Brant said. "Luckily, he didn't see us in
there, and we didn't make eye contact with him."
Brant estimated the ordeal lasted 15 or 20 minutes.
Neighboring buildings were placed on lockdown for hours, police said.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center spokesman Paul Wood said media
reports about a possible second gunman and a hostage situation at the clinic
or at nearby UPMC Presbyterian hospital were unfounded.
A SWAT team was on the scene shortly after the shooting. A street was
blocked off, and the area thronged with police. Most students are on spring
break, though offices and buildings have been open.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said it had received some
patients from the shooting. It said two patients were in intensive care, two
were released and three were being admitted. All were expected to survive.
The clinic, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, is located in the city
's Oakland neighborhood, a couple of miles east of downtown, and is
affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and one of
several affiliated hospitals adjacent to the university campus. Other
schools are nearby, including Carnegie Mellon, Carlow and Chatham
universities.
Pete Finelli, who lives two blocks from the clinic and once worked there as
a student nursing assistant, said security guards are always at the part of
the building where it the shooting is believed to have occurred, on the
ground floor.
Patient rooms are on the upper floors, he said, but anyone on the first
floor would have to be someone being either admitted or discharged.
"The only place a person would be on the first floor is the emergency room,"
he said.
Pitt sent out email and text alerts shortly after 2 p.m. to warn people of
the shooting.
"An active shooter has been identified at Western Psychiatric Institute.
Several injured," the alert said. "Possible second actor in Western Psych.
Lockdown recommended until further notice. If safe to do so, tell others of
this message."
Lawton Snyder, executive director of Pitt's Eye and Ear Foundation, said he
and two other staffers were locked down about a block away, in a building
that connects to the clinic. He said it was unnerving.
"Obviously I'm terribly sad for those injured. We're just hoping everybody's
OK and things are resolved quickly and that they can apprehend those who
are responsible," he said.
Patient Kevin Bonner, who was staying on the building's ninth floor, several
floors above the shooting scene, said there was a normal atmosphere there,
with patients in the common room listening to music, watching TV, drinking
and eating snacks. Bonner said no one at the hospital had told them what was
going on.
He said he had been napping and awoke to hear an announcement on the
intercom: "Bronze Alert on the first floor."
"I didn't think I was hearing my ears right until I looked out the window"
and saw police cars and a sniper, he said.
The alert and lockdown ended Thursday evening, but the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center asked that people avoid the clinic while the
investigation into the shooting continued. People were free to go when and
where they pleased at the two network hospitals nearest the clinic, UPMC
Presbyterian and UPMC Shadyside, which also had been locked down earlier in
the day. |
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