Cops encountered Archangel-Ortiz holding a female staffer at gunpoint with her hands bound, officials said. The officers engaged Archangel-Ortiz in a firefight, killing him. Archangel-Ortiz wounded two cops and killed a third, who was identified as Andrew Duarte, 30, of the West York Borough Police Department.

Authorities described the shooting of a gunman who opened fire at a Pennsylvania hospital as “absolutely justified, beyond any and all doubt.”

A 49-year-old gunman was shot and killed by police after they said he held multiple UPMC staff members hostage and shot multiple people.

An officer was killed and multiple people were injured in a shooting reported at UPMC Memorial Hospital on Innovation Drive and Roosevelt Avenue in York County on Saturday afternoon. West York Borough Police say one of their officers has been killed.

A gunman and a responding officer were killed after shots were fired Saturday at a hospital in central Pennsylvania.

Developing: A police incident was reported at the UPMC Memorial hospital in West Manchester Township on Saturday morning.

(CNN) — A police officer was killed and five other people were wounded when a man took medical staff hostage and opened fire at a York, Pennsylvania, hospital on Saturday morning, officials said. The gunman, identified by authorities as Diogenes Archangel Ortiz, 49, was also killed, authorities said.

Police shot the gunman dead, authorities say. "Our West York Borough family is suffering a painful loss today in response to a tragic mutual aid call earlier today in West Manchester Township at UPMC,

A gunman who held medical staff hostage before killing a police officer and wounding five others at a hospital in south-central Pennsylvania Saturday is believed to have visited the facility in the days leading up to the incident,