Two people were killed on Thursday and six were injured Mass shooting at Florida State UniversityIts student union, officials said.
Accused shooter, marked as a 20 -year -old FSU student Phoenix icnerHe was injured in a gun battle with reactionary officers and was in the hospital.
On Friday, the Tallasi Memorial Hospital said six of the victims were in a stable state and were expected to recover fully.
Hospital staff provided an update on the condition of the victims during a press conference and briefly explained how each patient needs to be treated for gun wounds. Employees say that at this time, six affected persons are in a stable state, one of them is in a fair due to the amount of injury.
According to a trauma surgeon and surgery team leader Dr. Brett Howard, the hospital was informed about the shooting before preparing for the many victims needed to treat them shortly before noon and immediately.
“You don’t know how many patients you are going to get,” he said, “TMH staff was very active with its communication system and activated the necessary resources to prepare additional staff for the worst.
Howard said that the hospital’s close proximity to the university also assisted in rapid reactions and immediate treatment, adding six more patients in an hour of admission. He also highlighted that the relationship between hospital staff, law enforcement and first reaction was helpful.
Three of the six patients were brought to the operating room for surgery, two of them needed abdominal surgery and the third needed surgery. Other patients were also injured in their extremism guns, hospital staff said, but it does not specify what injuries they were.
Despite the push, Howard said that all patients were “brave” when they arrived and they were able to contact the hospital staff: “They all had a very clear attitude [and] They were able to conversation with us. “
Asked if he was among the patients treating the icner, Howard told reporters that his team had only treated six persons and the complained gunman also did not specify whether one of the patients in the hospital.
FSU President Richard McCullo was also present at Friday’s press conference and thanked TMH staff for their incredible work for immediate treatment of victims.
“The hospital has been an amazing job,” he said.
A victim is anonymous to be admitted to the hospital
The authorities did not release the names of the victims. However, family members identified one of the victims as Robert Morales, a university dining worker.
Robert Morales
Among the dead were 57 -year -old Robert Morales, a long -time employee of the university’s Dining Services Department. His brother Ricardo Morales Jr. confirmed his death in a post on social media on Thursday night.
“Today we lost my younger brother,” he wrote. “He was one of the victims at the FSU.
Ricardo Morales Jr. also confirmed the death of his brother at CBS News Miami.
According to Miami Herald, Robert Morales was attending a meeting with other university employees at the start of the shooting. He was also the son of Ricardo “Monkey” Morales, a controversial Cuban American CIA operative and anti -casting anti -militant militant during the Cold War. Elder Morales died in a bar battle in Miami in 1982.
Although the university has not yet confirmed the names of the victims, Wax Has begun to appear across the campus, and a Vigil was scheduled on Friday at 7pm Langford Green A.
A doctor also assisted patients during the 2014 FSU library shooting
One of the hospital staff treated the victims was able to talk about comparing the treatment response a decade ago between the shooting and the FSU library shooting.
One of the staff during the shooting of the 27th, Dr. Shelby Blanc, said it was a “limited situation” compared to Thursday’s tragedy on Thursday.
“Unfortunately, the injury violence is something that is going on, whether it has been compressed for several hours on the weekend,” he said.
The blank continued to say that Thursday’s shooting was “disastrous”.
“Considering the number of students in this narrow region, the disaster recipe is very scary,” he said.
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