Law enforcement on the scene at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin where there was shooting this afternoon, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013.
Milwaukee police shot an armed man in the neo-natal ward of the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin while trying to serve him a felony warrant.
According to Sheriff David A. Clarke, the 22-year old suspect was holding a baby around noon at the hospital in Wauwatosa, Wis. when he was approached by police who tried to serve him a warrant for felony possession of a firearm, the CBS local news reports. The sheriff said that when police initially approached the suspect, he put down the baby and pretended he was going to cooperate with authorities, then bolted.
The Sheriff said that the man pointed his 40-caliber Glock at the officers as he fled, and the officers shot him in the arm holding the gun. The hospital was on lockdown for two hours Thursday afternoon, but has since resumed normal operations. The 22-year old man is now in police custody and being treated at a local hospital for non-life threatening wounds.
At least one visitor to the hospital expressed concerns about lax security. “This is a disgrace. This hospital has to have some kind of security. If one person can get in with a gun, then anyone can,” said Chad Starkey, 29, who was visiting his son at the time of the incident, according to the Associated Press.
[CBS]