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3 Dead in Shooting at Hospital Where Gunman's Mom Died
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retired teacher bearing a grudge over his mother's medical treatment at the hospital where she died fatally shot one of her nurses and another employee Thursday, then killed a man outside before police shot him.
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Man kills 3 because he was upset over Mom's hospital care, police say
http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2008/03/man-kills-3-...Story is from Georgia. Two of the victims were hospital employees, and the third was a guy who had the misfortune to park near the gunman, police say. Snip from The AP: 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. The suspect's mom was a patient there in 2004. Saw this via RDM's Random Remarks!
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hospital gunman
http://cutonthedottedline.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/hospital-...Ok, this is scary. We actually had a workplace shooting incident turn up at our trauma center lately. I comforted myself with the idea that people come to the hospital after such incidents. Remind me to check and see if our security guys have guns. I think they do.
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The world intrudes
http://basilsblog.net/2008/03/27/the-world-intrudes/Photo: Joe Paull, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer You hear about somebody going crazy and shooting up a place. Like a McDonald's in Texas. Or a high school in Colorado. But it's always somewhere else. Well, it's not always somewhere else. Sometimes, it's less than a mile away. I was at work today when word got around that a man walked into Doctor's Hospital in Columbus and shot and killed three people. What shocked me the most was how much I wasn't really shocked by it. My reaction was more along the line of "Huh. So it's happened here." Almost like I expected it. Not that I expected this. But the world is full of crazy asses who do things like this. Why did Charles Johnston do this? Reports say he was upset at the care his mother received at the hospital before she died. He killed one of the nurses who had treated his mom. And an administrative assistant. And a man in the parking lot. Police showed up while Johnston was still in the parking lot, and reports indicate that three officers fired at him, but only one hit him. Johnston is being treated at the Medical Center. That's the hospital next door to Doctor's Hospital. I expect they'll fix him up and that he'll be able to stand trial for murder. So he'll get better. Probably better than he deserves.
