TAMPA, Fla. – The latest on the shooting at a hospital in Tampa:
9:50 a.m.
Authorities say a woman was killed at Florida Hospital in Tampa before the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in an apparent murder-suicide.
According to Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Donna Lusczynski, the 41-year-old woman was shot in a third-floor hospital room and was immediately taken to the emergency room, where she later died.
The woman was identified in a news release as Alonna Tedesco. Officials said that she was visiting someone at the hospital when she was shot and that the man who shot her then shot himself.
The sheriff's department says the hospital is not on lockdown.
No further details were immediately available.
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8:35 a.m.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says one person has died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in a shooting at Florida Hospital in Tampa that left another person wounded.
In a news release, sheriff's spokesman Larry McKinnon says the wounded person is being treated for a gunshot. The shooting happened around 7 a.m. Monday.
Officials didn't identify the shooter or the victim. No further details about the shooting have been released.
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