BRONXVILLE, N.Y. — Police rushed to a suburban hospital late Sunday after two patients reported seeing a man with a shotgun, but after hours of searching and reviewing security camera footage, officials concluded it was a false alarm. The incident at NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital in Westchester County sparked a massive police response, including SWAT teams, after two patients in the same room reported the armed man to nurses on the sixth floor. The hospital was then locked down as the building was searched room to room. No patients were evacuated from the hospital, which had earlier urged people not to come to the hospital unless it was an emergency. In 2017, a doctor opened fire inside a Bronx hospital, killing a doctor and hurting six others before killing himself at the scene.

Source: National Post March 11, 2019 01:58 UTC