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		</div><p>A doctor forced out of a New York City hospital over sexual harassment claims returned with an assault rifle hidden under a lab coat and shot seven people, killing a woman medic and leaving several of her colleagues fighting for their lives.</p>
<p>The gunman, Dr Henry Bello, 45, then took his own life after trying to set himself on fire at Bronx Lebanon Hospital.</p>
<p>He staggered, bleeding, into a hallway where he collapsed and died with the rifle at his side, authorities said.</p>
<p>Witnesses described a chaotic scene as gunfire erupted spreading terror throughout the hospital as employees locked themselves inside rooms and patients feared for their lives.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I thought I was going to die,&#8221;</i> said Renaldo Del Villar, a patient in the third-floor emergency room who was being treated for a lower back injury.</p>
<p>Officials said Bello, described on the hospital website as a family medicine physician, used an AR-15 assault rifle in the attack on the 16th and 17th floors.</p>
<p>Bello was allowed to resign from the hospital in 2015 amid sexual harassment allegations, according to two law enforcement officials.</p>
<p>In unrelated cases, the doctor had been arrested in 2004 on a charge of sexual abuse, according to a police report, after a 23-year-old woman told police Bello grabbed her, lifted her up and carried her off, saying: <i>&#8220;You&#8217;re coming with me.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>He was arrested again in 2009 on a charge of unlawful surveillance, after two women reported he was trying to look up their skirts with a mirror.</p>
<p>The woman doctor was killed and six others wounded, five seriously, said police commissioner James O&#8217;Neill. The patients were treated in the emergency room at Bronx Lebanon.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;This was a horrible situation unfolding in a place that people associated with care and comfort, a situation that came out of nowhere,&#8221;</i> New York mayor Bill de Blasio said.</p>
<p>Shortly after receiving a 911 call about an active shooter, police officers went floor by floor, their guns drawn, looking for the gunman.</p>
<p>They later learned he was dead inside the building.</p>
<figure id="attachment_114522" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-114522" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/henryBelloBronxDoctorShooter_large.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/henryBelloBronxDoctorShooter_large.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="325" class="size-full wp-image-114522" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-114522" class="wp-caption-text">Dr Henry Bello.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Bello may have doused himself with an accelerant like petrol and tried to set himself on fire before shooting himself, officials said. Sprinklers extinguished the fire.</p>
<p>According to New York State Education Department records, Bello had a limited permit to practise as an international medical graduate to gain experience in order to be licensed. The permit was issued on July 1 2014, and expired last year on the same day.</p>
<p>A former colleague described Bello as a problematic employee.</p>
<p>He &#8220;was very aggressive, talking loudly, threatening people. All the time he was a problem&#8221;, said Dr David Lazala, a family medicine doctor who said he trained Bello at Bronx Lebanon.</p>
<p>He said Bello, who worked at night, sent him a threatening email after he left.</p>
<p>Employees and their loved ones described the horrifying moments as they scrambled for information.</p>
<p>Garry Trimble said his fiancee, hospital employee Denise Brown, called him from inside the building to tell him about the gunman.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;She woke me up and told me there was a situation, somebody&#8217;s out there shooting people,&#8221;</i> Mr Trimble said.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I could hear in her voice she was shaking and about to cry.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Gonzalo Carazo told WCBS-TV: <i>&#8220;I saw one of the doctors and he had a gunshot wound to his hand.</p>
<p>&#8220;All I heard was a doctor saying, &#8216;Help, help!'&#8221;.</i></p>
<p>Mr Carazo locked himself in a room for about 15 minutes until police came and led him out of the hospital.</p>
<p>The 120-year-old hospital has one of the busiest emergency rooms in New York City. The campus where Friday&#8217;s attack took place, about a mile and a half north of Yankee Stadium, has 415 beds.</p>
<p>In 2011, two people were shot at Bronx Lebanon in what police said was a gang-related attack.</p>
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