TRAGEDY swept hospital staff and patients when an active shooter made their way onto the premises.
After shooting and claiming a number of lives, the suspected perpetrator from the Oklahoma hospital has been named.
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Who is Tulsa hospital shooting suspect Michael Louis?
On June 1, 2022, a gunman entered the Natalie Building at St Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
A day after on Thursday, June 2, the gunman was suspected to be Michael Louis.
Louis was a former patient at the hospital who sought back surgery.
The surgery was performed weeks earlier on May 19 by Dr Preston Phillips.
During a press conference held by Tulsa police officials, Police Chief Wendell Franklin disclosed what reportedly led up to the horrific incident.
At the conference, Franklin claimed that in the weeks following Michael Louis’ surgery, the former patient made calls to the hospital to seek further treatment.
The police chief told the crowd: “The suspect called several times over several days complaining of pain and wanted additional treatment.”
“Yesterday, June the 1st, Louis called Dr. Phillips’ office again, complaining of back pain and wanting additional assistance.”
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Louis was supposedly seeking more medical consultation due to experiencing additional back pain.
The suspect’s calls to the hospitals went on for weeks leading up to the day of the shooting on Wednesday, June 1.
What was the suspected gunman’s motive?
The day after the tragedy, Michael Louis’ niece revealed more information related to the catastrophe.
She told The Daily Beast: “Tulsa Police called me and verified that it’s my uncle.”
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“We are so distraught. I don’t even want to be associated because I’m so disgusted.”
In order to avoid being associated with her uncle’s “heinous” crime, she asked the publication to not name her in their report.
She also explained that police discovered a note from her uncle that outlined his motive for his planned attack, but the officers didn’t say what was in the note.
Louis’ niece, who is unnamed further shared: “It’s just so shocking.”
“Like, if he had killed himself, okay. But those innocent people, that’s what I’m hurting about.”
“This is really crazy. Like, this is shocking… No one in our family, like nobody in our family, has this type of behavior. No one.”
How many people died at the Tulsa hospital shooting?
The shooter gunned down and killed a total of four victims.
Dr Preston Phillips, who operated on Michael, was one of the lives lost.
The other three victims included hospital staffers Dr Stephanie Husen and Amanda Glenn, as well as a patient named William Love.
At Thursday’s news conference, the Associate Chief Medical officer of St Francis, Dr Ryan Elizabeth Parker, spoke about the victims.
Dr Parker stated: “I know that all of my colleagues went into medicine to help people.”
“We are supposed to be the ones that are caring for others during tragedies like this.”
She further shared: “To think that our caregivers were the victims is just incomprehensible to me.”
“They died while serving others. They died in the line of duty.”
“But this is the reality of our world right now and today, our world, and our St. Francis family, are devastated.”
Dr Parker added: “We were just starting to process the grief and emotions that being on the frontline of a pandemic had left with us, and now this tragedy.”
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