Man with shotgun killed by police after threatening officers at Milwaukee VA hospital, officials say
MILWAUKEE — A man carrying a shotgun was shot and killed as he tried to enter the Milwaukee VA Medical Center on Monday night.
Around 8:40 p.m. the man was stopped by VA police outside the east entrance of the hospital, according to VA officials. Police told the man to drop his weapon, but he refused.
After the man threatened VA police, they fired multiple shots. He was taken to the VA hospital's emergency department where he died. Authorities were working Monday night to identify him.
No one else was injured.
Police officers from West Allis, Milwaukee, West Milwaukee and possibly other agencies were on the scene late Monday. Police shut down multiple entrances to the federally run health care facility.
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The VA hospital has its own police force and there are police posts at two public entrances. The police post in the east entrance is just inside the doors.
The Milwaukee VA medical complex encompasses several buildings on 245 acres including a medical center with almost 200 beds plus a nursing home and a domiciliary for inpatient substance abuse and psychiatric rehabilitation as well as care for PTSD patients.
The medical center handles more than 850,000 visits annually through its extensive outpatient program.
Earlier this month, a veteran who is a double amputee was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a shooting rampage in a Florida VA hospital emergency room in 2019, wounding several people. In January, VA police at a hospital in Dallas shot and killed a man who came to the facility and threatened them with a knife.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Man with shotgun killed by officers at Milwaukee VA hospital: police
