Michael Louis
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Michael Louis (died June 1, 2022) was an American mass shooter who killed four people before committing suicide at Warren Clinic, a medical facility that was part of the Saint Francis Hospital campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 1, 2022. The shooting occurred eight days after the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
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The Chief of the Tulsa Police Department, Wendell Franklin, said on June 2 that Louis had undergone back surgery with Dr. Preston Phillips and had suffered from pain since the operation. A letter, which officials said was found on Louis, said that, while Phillips was the target of the shooting, others "who got in his way" would also be killed.
The shooting is reported to have occurred on the building's second floor, in the orthopedic facility, with the victims being both staff members and patients. Law enforcement received a call of a person with a firearm in the Natalie Medical Building on Saint Francis Hospital campus, at around 4:56 p.m. Responding officers to the scene heard shots in the building and moved toward the second floor, where they found Louis dead from what they believed to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Tulsa Police Department notified the Muskogee Police Department that a bomb may have been placed in a residential area in Muskogee.
Four people were killed, and an unspecified number of other people were injured in the shooting. The victims were Dr. Phillips, Dr. Stephanie Husen, receptionist Amanda Glenn, and visitor William Love.
The victims were not immediately identified by both the media or the hospital system. The Saint Francis Health System, which operates the hospital, released a statement on June 1, explaining its decision to not name the victims out of respect for the families
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt called the shooting "a senseless act of violence and hatred." Tulsa Mayor G. T. Bynum expressed "profound gratitude" for the "broad range of first responders who did not hesitate today to respond to this act of violence."
Captain Richard Meulenberg of the Tulsa Police Department described the attack as deliberate, saying, "It wasn't random," and that "This wasn't an individual who just decided he wanted to go find a hospital full of random people. He deliberately made a choice to come here and his actions were deliberate."
Victims edit
- Preston Phillips, 59
- Stephanie Husen, 48
- Amanda Glenn, 40
- William Love, 73