Police officer killed, five injured in Pennsylvania hospital shooting after gunman takes hostages

A police officer was killed Saturday after responding to a shooting at UPMC Memorial Hospital located just outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where a gunman took several hostages and injured at least five other people before he was shot dead.

A police officer was killed Saturday after responding to a shooting at UPMC Memorial Hospital located just outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where a gunman took several hostages and injured at least five other people before he was shot dead.

West York Borough police officer Andrew Duarte, 30, died on the scene. The gunman was identified by authorities as 49-year-old Diogenes Archangel Ortiz. No motive for the shooting has been released.

“I’m shattered. Devastated. He was the love of my life,” Duarte's girlfriend, Zanna Morris, said Saturday night at a vigil outside the West York Borough Police Department station.

Surrounded by family members and coworkers tearfully holding candles in a small circle, Morris said Duarte died saving others.

“I was told he saved lives today," she said. "Because of his actions, many lives were saved."

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