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U.S. NEWS Saturday 1 July 2017
Doctor accused of sex harassment kills 1 at NYC hospital

By COLLEEN LONG expired last year on the
LARRY NEUMEISTER same day.
Associated Press Employees and their loved
NEW YORK (AP) — A doc- ones described the hor-
tor forced from a New York rifying moments as they
hospital because of sexual scrambled for information.
harassment accusations Garry Trimble said his fian-
returned Friday with an as- cee, hospital employee
sault rifle hidden under a Denise Brown, called him
lab coat and shot seven from inside the hospital to
people, killing one woman tell him about the gunman.
in an attack that left sever- “She woke me up and
al doctors fighting for their told me there was a situa-
lives, authorities said. tion, somebody’s out there
The gunman, Dr. Henry Bel- shooting people,” Trimble
lo, fatally shot himself after said as he waited for Brown
trying to set himself on fire to leave the hospital. “I
at Bronx Lebanon Hospital, could hear in her voice she
they said. He staggered, was shaking and about to
bleeding, into a hallway cry.”
where he collapsed and Gonzalo Carazo described
died with the rifle at his the scary scene to WCBS-
side, officials said. TV. “I saw one of the doc-
Witnesses described a A woman is escorted by officers in plainclothes near the Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center after tors and he had a gunshot
chaotic scene as gunfire reports of a shooting, Friday, June 30, 2017, in New York. wound to his hand,” Cara-
erupted spreading terror (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) zo said.q
throughout the medical fa- lance, after two different
cility as employees locked women reported he was
themselves inside rooms trying to look up their skirts
and patients feared for with a mirror.
their lives. Ultimately, one female
“I thought I was going to doctor was killed and six
die,” said Renaldo Del Vil- others wounded — five
lar, a patient who was in seriously, according to Po-
the third-floor emergency lice Commissioner James
room getting treatment for O’Neill. The patients were
a lower back injury. treated in the emergency
Law enforcement officials room at Bronx Lebanon.
identified the shooter as “This was a horrible situa-
the 45-year-old Bello, who tion unfolding in a place
was described on the hos- that people associated
pital website as a family with care and comfort, a
medicine physician. situation that came out of
Officials said Bello used an nowhere,” Mayor Bill de
AR-15 assault rifle in the at- Blasio said, adding that ter-
tack on the 16th and 17th rorism was not involved in
floors. the attack.
Bello was allowed to resign Shortly after receiving a 911
from the hospital in 2015 call about an active shoot-
amid sexual harassment er, police officers went floor
allegations, according to by floor, their guns drawn,
two law enforcement of- looking for the gunman.
ficials. The officials didn’t They later learned he was
know the details of the al- dead inside the building.
legations. De Blasio confirmed that
The officials were not au- the Bello killed himself.
thorized to discuss the still- Bello may have doused
unfolding investigation and himself with an acceler-
spoke on condition of ano- ant like gasoline and tried
nymity. to set himself on fire before
In unrelated cases, the shooting himself, officials
doctor had been arrest- said. Sprinklers extinguished
ed in 2004 on a charge the fire.
of sexual abuse, accord- According to New York
ing to a police report, af- State Education Depart-
ter a 23-year-old woman ment records, Bello had a
told police Bello grabbed limited permit to practice
her, lifted her up and car- as an international medi-
ried her off, saying, “You’re cal graduate to gain ex-
coming with me.” He was perience in order to be
arrested again in 2009 on a licensed. The permit was
charge of unlawful surveil- issued on July 1, 2014, and