Jefferson University Hospital Employee Fatally Shoots Coworker

Philadelphia – An employee shot and killed a coworker inside Thomas Jefferson University Hospital early Monday morning.

The hospital shooting happened just after midnight in the hospital’s Gibbon Building, reports WPVI, and the victim has been identified as 43-year-old male nursing assistant Anrae James, reports 6ABC. The victim was pronounced dead shortly after being shot. No one else at the hospital was injured during the ordeal.

The suspect has been identified as Stacey Hayes, 55, who is also a nursing assistant. After the attack, he fled the scene in a U-Haul. About an hour later, police were flagged down by a passerby about four miles from the hospital near the School of the Future, reports NBC Philadelphia. When officers confronted the suspect, he opened fire and injured two of the responding officers.

Police then shot Hayes in the upper body and neck. He was wearing body armor and was carrying a long gun and handgun.