Birmingham News said the shooting took place at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham at about 4 a.m. The gunman wounded two hospital staffers and a Birmingham police officer before he was killed by another Birmingham police officer.
The shooting came one day after a deadly shooting in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut which left 28 people dead.
The hospital is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The university released a statement saying it " does everything it can to keep its patients, visitors and employees safe, including 24-hour security at all entrances to the emergency department and throughout the area provided by UAB's accredited and armed police department, and having all persons entering the emergency department through the walk-in entrance pass through a metal detector."
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