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- Police said that a shooting involving two employees at Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital took place Thursday morning in a parking lot in the hospital.
- A 25 -year -old Troy man was struck in the arm and the hospital blocked for several hours before the arrest of a suspect.
- The two men involved were friends at some point, but dropped, said Troy police chief Josh Jones.
- Patients who had appointments are delayed said what to do next.
This story of rupture has been updated with additional information.
Beth Walsh, 52, from Rochester Hills, hid on Thursday morning at Corewell Health Beaumont Troy hospital, after an employee had shot another in a parking lot – which caused one hour locking while several police services sought the shooter.
Walsh, an authorized nurse, seized a post IV and stood in the event that the shooter performs on her and seven of his colleagues in the closet.
“It was very intense,” she said. “We were all in shock. … We have somehow passed our thoughts, our plan. What would we do? We caught the Poles. We had a pregnant woman in our room with us, and we thought:” We will protect her. “”
After more than two hours of hiding place, a police team escorted Walsh and their colleagues outside the hospital, which is on Dequindre Road, just south of the M-59 and near Donald Flynn Park.
“They wanted us to be out of the building because they were checking each area,” said Walsh.
His story is only one of the dozens of accounts of people whose life was disrupted Thursday morning by the tumult following the shooting – who, according to Josh Jones of Troy, the chief of the Troy police, ended with a 25 -year -old Corewell health worker treated in the hospital for a criminal injury to the arm and another employee of the police, while waiting to arrest the criminal accusations.
The nearby schools, the daycare centers and the offices suddenly closed or locked after 7:08 am, when the Troy police received the call according to which there was an active shooter in the hospital.
While the search for the suspect followed, patients and staff were in crisis mode. The hospital has postponed procedures, imaging analyzes, surgeries, treatments and appointments, said Mark Geary, spokesperson for Corewell Health.
The surgeons finished the procedures that were underway when the alert arrived, but the people scheduled later in the morning were delayed. It was not clear on Thursday afternoon how reprogrammed were to be.
Meghan Nelson, 37, from Sterling Heights, entered the emergency room a few minutes before the shooting because she had an allergic reaction.
“Someone who worked in the hospital … came to run in the doors and said to all the sorting nurses,” there is an active shooter. We had to lock ourselves. “The security guard had said to him:” It’s not an exercise “.”
Nelson was introduced into a bathroom with another patient and eight hospital workers, where they sat in silence for more than two hours.
“It was a bit trying for the nerves,” she said. “We have turned off the lights. We all silence our phones. We were very, very silent.”
They agreed not to open the door to anyone. But a little after 9:15 a.m., she said, hit.
“We remained silent,” said Nelson. “They struck again. It was a female voice saying:” Girls! “Girls! ‘ And we remained silent. “
They cracked the door and saw that he was sure to leave.
“We all followed PAM in a few corridors to the place where the emergency beds are … and I spent at least 30, if not 40 years, preparation agents with their rifles of all the different agencies and they were in all the corridors, just looking at us in a safe place.”
Finally, Nelson was placed in his own room in part of the hospital that law enforcement agents had checked several times.
“Each person I was locked up with mainly came and checked me,” she said. “They were very attentive, very attentive and very professional. I was grateful that even if I was in a horrible situation, it was as good as it could be for us.”
Nelson obtained the care she needed and said she had been released around noon. But one of the most difficult things was to know how terrified her 15 -year -old daughter was worried about her mother’s security.
“An emergency alert started during school: an active shooter in Troy Corewell,” said Nelson. “She checked my location and saw that I was there, so she started calling me. But I couldn’t answer because it was when we were in a real strict locking in darkness. … she was a little inconsolable.
“It’s just the world in which we live at the moment. I must be nervously sending to school most of the time,” said Nelson, because there have been so many school shots. “For her, I think, it made it really real that these things happen near them.”
The police investigation revealed that the shooting had been targeted and took place in the hospital car park following an argument among two employees who were also friends, said Jones.
The authorities followed the suspect in a house in the canton of Macomb, where he was reached by mobile phone. The suspect came voluntarily outside and was arrested shortly after 9:30 am, Troy’s police intended to ask accusations at the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office, Jones said.
Corewell Health said he had chaplains and social workers available for staff and patients who need support. In addition, the Oakland Community Health Network opened its resilience center for residents of the community who could use support and advice, said Jones.
Patients whose procedures or appointments were canceled Thursday should directly call the department where they were to be treated to be postponed, Geary said.
The editor in press staff Christina Hall contributed to this report.
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