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3 killed in Ga. hospital shooting spree
By KATE BRUMBACK,
Associated Press Writer Thu Mar 27, 2008.
COLUMBUS, Ga. - A retired teacher bearing a grudge over his mother's
treatment at the hospital where she died fatally shot one of her
nurses, another employee and a man outside Thursday before police shot
him, authorities said.
Charles Johnston, 63, is being charged with murder and will be turned
over to police after an overnight stay in another hospital, where he
was treated for a shoulder wound, Police Chief Ricky Boren said.
The chief said the gunman arrived at Doctors Hospital with three
pistols, including a 9mm automatic and a .38-caliber revolver, and
went to the fifth-floor intensive care unit where his mother had been
in 2004.
"He blamed a male nurse. He didn't think his mother had been properly
cared for," Boren said.
Boren gave the following account:
Johnston overheard someone call the nurse's name, then waited until he
went into an empty room, where he confronted him, saying: "Do you
remember me? Do you remember my mother?"
He shot him once; the nurse started to run, then fell in the hall
after being shot again.
When the gunman started to leave, an administrative secretary entered
the area, saying, "Where did he go?" As he rounded a corner, he was
shot, too, Boren said.
The gunman started to take an elevator but finding it too slow went
down the stairs.
As he was getting into his car in the parking lot, another car pulled
in facing his, and the driver was shot as he got out of the vehicle.
That man died later.
A city deputy marshal arrived in the parking lot; he fired at her and
she shot back, but neither was hit. A plainclothes detective blocked
the gunman's car, and when Johnston pulled a gun, the detective shot
him, Boren said.
Johnston, who used to teach school, appears to be in satisfactory
condition after surgery, Boren said.
Columbus is in western Georgia, on the Alabama line.
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Denneys' Comments:
Once again, dear readers, we see what firearms do in the "land of
the "spree"...err..I mean "free" (to kill) zone..err. I mean "nation".
Yes, we can continue this outrageous farce that guns "protect" us,
as these NRA gun freaks would have you and I believe, but perhaps,
if these three innocent victims of US gun violence could still talk,
instead of cooling their heels forever, first in the morgue and
thence onto their gravesites, the might speak out very differently
about the state of American gun control laws, in the 21st century.
-Roger
3 killed in Ga. hospital shooting spree
By KATE BRUMBACK,
Associated Press Writer Thu Mar 27, 2008.
COLUMBUS, Ga. - A retired teacher bearing a grudge over his mother's
treatment at the hospital where she died fatally shot one of her
nurses, another employee and a man outside Thursday before police shot
him, authorities said.
Charles Johnston, 63, is being charged with murder and will be turned
over to police after an overnight stay in another hospital, where he
was treated for a shoulder wound, Police Chief Ricky Boren said.
The chief said the gunman arrived at Doctors Hospital with three
pistols, including a 9mm automatic and a .38-caliber revolver, and
went to the fifth-floor intensive care unit where his mother had been
in 2004.
"He blamed a male nurse. He didn't think his mother had been properly
cared for," Boren said.
Boren gave the following account:
Johnston overheard someone call the nurse's name, then waited until he
went into an empty room, where he confronted him, saying: "Do you
remember me? Do you remember my mother?"
He shot him once; the nurse started to run, then fell in the hall
after being shot again.
When the gunman started to leave, an administrative secretary entered
the area, saying, "Where did he go?" As he rounded a corner, he was
shot, too, Boren said.
The gunman started to take an elevator but finding it too slow went
down the stairs.
As he was getting into his car in the parking lot, another car pulled
in facing his, and the driver was shot as he got out of the vehicle.
That man died later.
A city deputy marshal arrived in the parking lot; he fired at her and
she shot back, but neither was hit. A plainclothes detective blocked
the gunman's car, and when Johnston pulled a gun, the detective shot
him, Boren said.
Johnston, who used to teach school, appears to be in satisfactory
condition after surgery, Boren said.
Columbus is in western Georgia, on the Alabama line.
===================================================
Denneys' Comments:
Once again, dear readers, we see what firearms do in the "land of
the "spree"...err..I mean "free" (to kill) zone..err. I mean "nation".
Yes, we can continue this outrageous farce that guns "protect" us,
as these NRA gun freaks would have you and I believe, but perhaps,
if these three innocent victims of US gun violence could still talk,
instead of cooling their heels forever, first in the morgue and
thence onto their gravesites, the might speak out very differently
about the state of American gun control laws, in the 21st century.
-Roger
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