Physician Is Wounded in Johns Hopkins Hospital Shooting That Claimed 2 Lives

A faculty physician was wounded in a shooting incident that claimed two lives and shut down parts of the Johns Hopkins University’s medical complex in East Baltimore for several hours on Thursday, The Sun reported. The shooter apparently killed his mother, an 84-year-old patient in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, before turning the gun on himself. Investigators discovered their bodies after sending in a robot with a camera. The doctor, David B. Cohen, an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery, was wounded in the abdomen and was expected to recover. Access to the School of Nursing, across the street from the hospital, was restricted during the incident. A notice on the university’s Web site advised nursing students to check with instructors about the status of classes and not to come to the East Baltimore campus if they did not need to.