New York doctor hunted for ex-colleague before shooting
NEW YORK — A doctor angry that his career was derailed at a New York City hospital toted an assault rifle past security in search of an ex-colleague he was going to hold responsible.
Dr. Henry Bello aired his complaints against his former workplace in an email purportedly sent to the New York Daily News about two hours before he returned to Bronx Lebanon Hospital on Friday and pulled an AM-15 assault rifle from under his white lab coat, opening fire before turning the gun on himself.
[...] I was told it was because I always kept to myself.
A law enforcement official told the Associated Press that when Bello arrived at the hospital he asked for a specific doctor whom he blamed for his having to resign but the physician wasn’t there at the time.
Hospital officials said Saturday that Tam normally worked in one of the hospital’s satellite clinics and was covering a shift in the main hospital as a favor to someone else.
“Many of our staff risked their own lives to save patients,” Schneer told reporters at the hospital where the 16th and 17th floors remained closed, and staffers were still recovering from the rampage that sent people diving for cover while the gunman was on the loose.