The man who authorities say entered a Pennsylvania hospital with zip ties and a pistol over the weekend had recent contact with the hospital's intensive care unit, where he took staff members hostage and was killed in a shootout that left a police officer dead and others injured.

Authorities described the shooting of a gunman who opened fire at a Pennsylvania hospital as “absolutely justified, beyond any and all doubt.”

A gunman who held medical staff hostage before killing a police officer and wounding five others at a hospital in south-central Pennsylvania Saturday is believed to have visited the facility in the days leading up to the incident,

A 49-year-old gunman was shot and killed by police after they said he held multiple UPMC staff members hostage and shot multiple people.

A gunman and a responding officer were killed after shots were fired Saturday at a hospital in central Pennsylvania.

Cops encountered Archangel-Ortiz holding a female staffer at gunpoint with her hands bound, officials said. The officers engaged Archangel-Ortiz in a firefight, killing him. Archangel-Ortiz wounded two cops and killed a third, who was identified as Andrew Duarte, 30, of the West York Borough Police Department.

A Pennsylvania police officer was killed and multiple people were injured after a gunman opened fire during what authorities are calling a hostage situation at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York on Feb. 22.