Nurse Fatally Shoots Co-worker at Philadelphia Hospital

Nurse Fatally Shoots Co-worker at Philadelphia Hospital
Police vehicles and a U-Haul truck are shown at a crime scene in Philadelphia, on Oct. 4, 2021. Matt Rourke/AP Photo
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PHILADELPHIA—A nurse at a Philadelphia hospital fatally shot his co-worker early Monday morning, fled the scene, and was shot in a gunfight with police that wounded two officers, authorities said.

The 55-year-old nurse was wearing scrubs when he shot his co-worker on the ninth floor of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital just after midnight, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a news conference.