An officer killed in the siege of the Pennsylvania hospital of the shooter was struck by a friendly fire, said the prosecutor

York, Pennsylvania – An officer killed by responding to A siege of the Pennsylvania hospital was struck by an explosion of fighter fired by the police who also struck an armed man holding hostages, a prosecutor disclosed during a press conference on Wednesday.

West York striker and patroller Andrew W. Duarte were killed in the shots in York on February 22, while several other people were injured.

The hunting rifle also injured a second officer responding to the intensive care unit, said the District of the County District of York, Tim Barker, announcing the results of his investigation.

Barker called the hero officers who met a dangerous situation, ready to risk their lives and save the hostages. He said that striker Diogene Archangel-Ortiz “unleashed a torrent of evil” and directly caused Duarte’s death.

“I watched every moment of video and I saw on the face of each person that the desire to enter, to run on the path of shots and potential death. They were ready to give their life to each person of this hospital,” said Barker. He called their “100% justified and legally appropriate” shares.

The attack on UPMC Memorial Hospital occurred after the shooter learned from a doctor whom the woman he lived with had died after treatment there, Barker told journalists. Investigators looking for a reason in the “mental state” of Archangel-Ortiz came empty, he said.

“There was no description provided that it would lead anyone to believe that the actor was going to commit this type of mass violence,” said Barker. The last act of Duarte was to go to the threat, chief Matthew Millsaps said at the funeral of the officers.

Archangel-Ortiz, 49, bought zipped ties and a knife that morning and used a stolen weapon in 2017 in a neighboring county during the attack, said Barker. He said that Daphange-Ortiz seemed to become nauseous when a doctor told him that the woman had been transferred to the hospital morgue.

A few moments later, he showed a firearm and announced: “This is what we are going to talk about,” said Barker. Archangel-Ortiz shot the doctor, scraping his arm and piercing a jacket. The doctor, who had sent a text to the colleagues of the shooter, fled from the USI.

What followed was a chaotic series of events in which Archangel-Ortiz threatened hostages and patients and has made a hospital worker who attaches others. A hospital worker who had been shot in the leg was able to flee and lock himself in a bathroom.

Barker said that Daphange-Ortiz also called his brother during the siege, telling him to clean his house and give his jewelry. “This is how I go out,” said Archangel-0rtiz to his brother, “said Barker.

Police tried to negotiate and defuse the crisis, said Barker, while also organizing teams at intensive care gates and formulated a plan so that the agents follow someone with a tactical shield in the unit.

He said that Duarte had been hit in the shoulder and chest.

In all, said Barker, four workers were injured – the doctor and worker who were slaughtered, a third person with a head trauma and a fourth with a minor injury. Two police officers were slaughtered, one third was injured by bursts of buses and duarte was killed. He did not disclose the name of the officer who pulled the shotgun.

When the police recovered the 9 mm of Archangel-Ortiz’s 9 mm handgun, they were not loaded.

Barker said they had no details about the reason why Archangel-Ortiz did what he had done, noting: “Sometimes there is no” why “.

“The only thing we can say is that he decided to participate in himself that day, fully prepared to take hostages and kill people,” said Barker.

Some of the nurses who survived the attack shared their accounts on social networks, revealing details on injuries and treatments and how the attack haunted the survivors. The attack highlighted violence against American health care workers and the challenges to protect them.

Nurse Tosha Trostle declared in an article on Facebook that she was held against him as a shield under the threat of a firearm, the weapons attached to the shelter from the back, while they crossed a door and met a phalanx of police officers who responded. She said that she had begged Archangel-Ortiz to let her go and pushed the pistol against her neck and spine. She heard shots and fell on the ground under her body, then was able to go safe.