A hospital patient, who was threatening to shoot anyone approaching him but was actually unarmed, has been shot dead by three US police forces.
Identified as Brian Baker, 35, the patient at Orlando Regional Medical Center was killed Monday morning.
He had claimed that he had a gun and would “shoot anyone who comes near him,” according to Orlando police.
At approx 6 am, OPD responded to ORMC (ER) for reports of a male subject who claimed to have a gun and was threatening to shoot. Crisis negotiators showed up. When officers approached the subject made aggressive movements, officers fired. Suspect was shot. No one else hurt. pic.twitter.com/z2CFGftZcv
— Orlando Police (@OrlandoPolice) October 1, 2018
Police Chief John Mina asserted that Baker “made movements consistent with pulling or reaching for a firearm.”
“It’s going to end today,” Mina quoted him as saying at some point, adding that police crisis negotiators were met with…