2 Dead, 2 Hurt in Ga. Hospital Shooting
posted 5:38 pm Thu March 27, 2008 - COLUMBUS, Ga.
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Authorities say a man whose mother died at a west Georgia hospital shot and killed two people there hours later and wounded a third before police wounded him.Columbus Police Chief Ricky Boren says a male nurse was among the dead in Thursday's shooting at Doctors Hospital. A secretary was in critical condition. Boren says a plainclothes officer responding to a call of shots fired saw an armed man leaving the hospital and saw him shoot a bystander in the head. The suspect was wounded after he opened fire on police.
Authorities say the shooter's mother died of natural causes.
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