Johns Hopkins Hospital Shooting: Gunman Kills Himself

Tragedy struck the world-famous John Hopkins Hospital on Thursday morning, after a gunman shot a doctor, killed his own mother and then killed himself. According to a nurse, the shooting happened after the man got upset with hospital staff over the medical treatment his mom was receiving.


The gunman, 50-year-old Paul Warren Pardus, had been listening to the surgeon around midday when he "became emotionally distraught and reacted ... and was overwhelmed by the news of his mother's condition


I guess he just couldn't bear to see her the way she was," said Pardus' brother, 59-year-old Alvin Gibson of Remington, Va. He said their mother suffered from arthritis and rheumatism and had surgery last week, but it didn't help her.