Doctor Shot at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Gunman Fatally Shoots Self & Mother in Apparent Murder-Suicide

Warren Davis, 50, allegedly shoots Dr. Cohen after learning about his mother's condition and then kills his mother and commits suicide shortly thereafter.

A man, who was suspected of shooting a Johns Hopkins Hospital doctor, identified as Dr. David Cohen, a physician in Orthopedic Surgery unit, has reportedly fatally shot himself and his mother, who had been hospitalized, according to the Baltimore Sun. The shootings ended a four-hour stand-off at the hospital. He reportedly had barricaded himself on the eighth floor of the hospital's Nelson Building for about four hours. Dr. Cohen is expected to survive being shot in the abdomen. There are reports stating the suspect is an African-American male in his 30s. 

According to WBAL-TV 11 News reporter David Collins that the man was unhappy because his mother had been paralyzed, and that the doctor was shot while in surgery. The doctor's wife is a nurse at the hospital, 11 News learned. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says the suspect and his relative died in a murder-suicide in a room at Hopkins. 

WJZ's media partner, the Baltimore Sun, reports a nurse on the floor where the shooting took place says a man was upset about his mother's care.  There are reports the man was upset after his mother came out of spinal surgery and could not walk. The nurse says the man threatened to jump out of a window and then she heard gunshots. Source

The shooter has been identified as 50-year-old Warren Davis, who became distraught and reacted ... and was overwhelmed by the news of his mother's condition," police commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III said.