A disgruntled Nigerian medical doctor, Henry Bello, on Friday, barged into the Bronx Lebanon Hospital Centre, New York, United States with an armed rifle, killing one and injuring six others.
According to the New York Police Department, Bello also opened fire on himself and died in the process.
The shooter, 45, had vowed to get back at his former co-workers more than two years ago shortly before he was forced to resign over accusations of sexual harassment.
“We fired him because he was kind of crazy,” Dr. Maureen Kwankam, 50, who was just steps away from Bello’s bloody rampage, told the Daily News.
“He promised to come back and kill us then.”
The carnage began at about 2:45 p.m. when Bello — wearing a white lab coat to cloak his weapon — opened fire at his former colleagues on the hospital’s 16th floor.
With cops closing in, Bello’s shooting spree ended one floor above — after he turned the weapon on himself, police said.
Bello had also tried to start a fire at the nurse’s station on the 16th floor, but the hospital’s sprinkler system put out the small blaze. Before shooting himself, he had also tried to light himself on fire, police sources said.
Bello’s body was found sprawled across a hallway floor near that of a female victim — identified only as a doctor — whom he had killed, said NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill.
Officials have not released the identity of the victims.
“We’ve had a real tragedy here in the Bronx this afternoon,” Mayor de Blasio said at a news conference outside the Morris Heights hospital. “It’s something we’ve seen around the country, and now we’ve experienced it here.”

The mayor said five of Bello’s victims were in serious condition. Another suffered a gunshot wound to the leg.
“As you know, the shooter killed himself, but not before having done horrible damage,” de Blasio said. “Our hearts go out to the family of the doctor who passed away.”
As shots rang out and Bello moved through the floors, panicked doctors and nurses — some tending to patients — scrambled to take cover, barricading themselves in rooms with the help of furniture.
Kwankam said she arrived on the 17th-floor moments before the shooter did.
“It was unbelievable — unbelievable,” she said.
Once she heard gunfire, Kwankam ran down a stairwell to the ninth floor, where a colleague told her to hide in a room.
She said the gunman came to the ninth floor and tried to open the locked room, where she had hunkered down by herself.
“He was jiggling the handle. There was just a lot of commotion,” she recalled.
Bello, who was born in Nigeria and recently lived on the Upper East Side, was previously busted for sex abuse and pervy behavior.
He was arrested in the East Village on Aug. 28, 2004, for grabbing a 23-year-old woman by the crotch — telling her, “You’re coming with me,” police sources said.
He pleaded guilty in September of that year to unlawful imprisonment and was sentenced to community service.
He was arrested again in October 2009 for unlawful surveillance under a victim’s clothing.
He was also busted twice in 2003 — for fare-beating and burglary, sources said.
No answered the door at his Upper East Side apartment Friday night.
Source Daily News