Bronx Hospital Shooting: What You Need To Know

BRONX, NY — Authorities have identified the female doctor who was killed Friday when another doctor who was formerly employed by Bronx Lebanon Hospital opened fire on his one time colleagues, killing and injuring six others before turning the gun on himself. According to the NYPD, the slain doctor was identified as 32-year-old Queens resident Tracy Sin-Yee Tam.

The NYPD has not identified the shooter but law enforcement sources told Patch the alleged shooter is 45-year-old Henry Bello. Police say the shooter was wearing a white lab coat and was armed with an assault rifle during the deadly shooting in the Bronx. Police released the following photo of the assault rifle used in the shooting early Saturday:

At one point, police say the shooter tried to set himself on fire, leading to the fire alarm activating at the hospital. Of the six others injured in the shooting, five of them were injured seriously while a sixth victims suffered a gunshot wound to the leg.

Here's what we know so far about the shooting and the alleged shooter Henry Bello:

Email Blaming Hospital

Bello sent an email to the New York Daily News blaming two doctors by name for the reason why he was fired from his job at the hospital. The email to the News was sent two hours before the deadly rampage and Bello never threatened violence in the text of the message as the News noted.

“This hospital terminated my road to a licensure to practice medicine,” Bello wrote in the email. “First, I was told it was because I always kept to myself. Then it was because of an altercation with a nurse.”

>>>Read the full email here.

Resigned After Harassing Employee

Bello was allowed to resign from the hospital for harassing an employee, a law enforcement source told Patch. When Bello entered the hospital Friday, he could not find that employee and then started shooting, according to a CBS report.

2004 Arrest

Bello was arrested and charged with with sexual abuse and unlawful imprisonment in 2004, a law enforcement official told The New York Times. He pleaded guilty to the unlawful imprisonment charge and the sexual abuse charge, which stemmed from Bello allegedly grabbing a 23-year-old woman's crotch area, was dropped against him.

Slain Doctor Wasn't Supposed To Be There

32-year-old Tracy Tram, the doctor who was fatally shot during Friday's rampage, was covering someone else's shift. A hospital source told the New York Post that Friday was supposed to be Tram's day off and she took the shift to cover for a coworker.

“She didn’t have to be there. She doesn’t work in the hospital she works in the clinic,” a man identified as Tram's neighbor, told the Post.

Heroic Action Of Hospital Staff

Witnesses described to reporters how even during the lockdown doctors and hospital staff rushed to stabilize those who had been shot. Staff apparently grabbed a firehose from the wall to use as a tourniquet on a victim's leg. Two hospital workers speaking to the New York Times said they watched doctors rushing to stabilize one victim who was shot in the neck and another who was struck in the leg.

“It definitely helped that the doctors were right there,” an employee told the Times.

Police officers with the Forensics Unit leave Bronx Lebanon Hospital after a gunman opened fire and then took his own life there, Friday, June 30, 2017, in New York. The gunman, identified as Dr. Henry Bello who used to work at the hospital, returned with a rifle hidden under his white lab coat, law enforcement officials said. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)