Bello, The New York Hospital Shooter Identified As A Nigerian (Pitured)

Bello, The New York Hospital Shooter Identified As A Nigerian (Pitured)

Dr Henry Michael Bello, the gunman who shot
six people at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital
Centre in New York on Friday, has been
identified as a Nigerian.

Some Nigerians in New York, who knew Bello,
confirmed to the Correspondent of the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday. And the
NYPD has also identified him to be a Nigerian-
born doctor.

Bello, 45, shot dead a woman, on the 17th
floor and injured at least six others on the
16th floor, before killing himself the New York
Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner
James O'Neil, said.

Five of his victims were seriously injured and
"fighting for their lives",

Bello went into his former workplace wearing
a white lab coat with an AR-15 machine gun
hidden underneath with the intention of
targeting the same individual.

NYPD officials said Bello asked for a specific
doctor on the 16th floor but when he was told
the doctor was not there , he became angry
and started shooting at everyone.

Officials said Bello tried to set himself on fire
before committing suicide.

Reports said Bello, who was hired at the hospital in August 2014 as a house physician, had past arrests for sex abuse, turnstile jumping, burglary and public urination.

In September 2004, he was arrested and
charged with sex abuse and unlawful
imprisonment after a 23-year-old woman told
officers he had grabbed her crotch area
outside a building on Bleecker Street in
Manhattan and tried to penetrate her through
her underwear, reports said.

Court records indicated that in September
2004, Bello pleaded guilty to unlawful
imprisonment in the second degree, a
misdemeanour, and was sentenced to
community service, while the felony sexual
abuse charge was dismissed, according to
reports.

He was going to be fired by the hospital, after
reports of sexual harassments, but instead
chose to resign in February 2015 in lieu of
termination, reports further said.

Reports from the New York State Education
Department said Bello had received a limited
permit to practice as an international medical
graduate in order to gain experience so he
could be licensed.

The permit was issued on July 1, 2014, and
expired on July 1, 2016, while he also had a
pharmacy technician license that had been
issued in California in 2006.

He went to medical school on the island of
Dominica in the Caribbean.

A photo provided by authorities showed him
dead on the floor of the hospital, wearing a
bloodied doctor's coat.

Law enforcement officials described Bello as
transient recently, with at least five different
addresses since he left the hospital.

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