Inmate Fatally Shoots Guard, Kills Self at Ohio Hospital

Inmate Fatally Shoots Guard, Kills Self at Ohio Hospital
The Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, in July 2019. Google Maps/Screenshot via The Epoch Times
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DAYTON, Ohio—A county jail inmate receiving treatment at an Ohio hospital shot and killed a security guard, pointed the weapon at others and then killed himself in a parking lot, authorities said.

The shooting Wednesday at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton happened before a gunman carrying a rifle and a handgun killed four people and himself at a medical building on a hospital campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma.