Dispatchers acquired a name on Tuesday saying a person entered the Kids’s Medical Group’s workplace with a gun and held the hostages contained in the constructing.
Initially, a number of hostages had been detained, police mentioned, however a number of fled and others had been allowed to go away, along with Dr. Katherine Dodson, pediatrician at CMG. The hostage instructed police that the person was armed with a pistol and what seemed to be a shotgun, police mentioned. He additionally had two baggage.
The armed man was recognized as Dr. Bharat Narumanchi, 43, a pediatrician who was lately identified with terminal most cancers, police mentioned. He had visited the CMG workplace every week earlier than the taking pictures and utilized for a volunteer place. Along with his current go to, police couldn’t discover a hyperlink between Dodson and Narumanchi.
Hostage negotiators then arrived on the scene and tried to contact Narumanchi, however failed. After repeated makes an attempt, SWAT officers entered the constructing the place they discovered Dodson and Narumanchi useless from apparent gunfire.
“It appeared that Dr. Narumanchi shot himself after taking pictures Dr. Dodson,” in accordance with the police division’s press launch. The incident remains to be underneath investigation.
The Travis County Medical Examiner will carry out an post-mortem to find out the official reason for demise and the strategy.
Dodson, 43, joined CMG as a pediatrician in 2017, says the well being middle’s web site. She was a local of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and was married with three kids, the web site mentioned.
