Cops: 1 woman dead in shooting at Buffalo hospital

June 13, 2012 at 1:18p.m.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A police SWAT team today searched a building on the grounds of a Buffalo hospital for a person suspected of fatally shooting a 33-year-old woman, authorities said.

Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda said the morning shooting that prompted a lockdown of Erie County Medical Center wasn’t a random act. Police searched the building adjacent to the hospital’s main building for the shooter more than four hours after the victim was gunned down inside.

The shooting prompted a four-hour lockdown of the medical center’s 65-acre campus that was lifted at around noon for all buildings except the one being searched by police. Incoming patients were diverted to another hospital during the lockdown.

Police haven’t released any information on the victim, other than her age. No information on the suspected shooter was released.

Police said the woman was shot several times shortly after 8 a.m. inside a building that houses outpatient services and offices.