Oklahoma shooting highlights vulnerability of hospitals

TULSA, Okla. - Hospitals, like schools, are not typically designed to guard against the threat of a determined gunman entering the building to take lives.The vulnerability of health care facilities was highlighted by a shooter who killed four people and then himself Wednesday at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The assailant got inside a building on the Saint Francis Hospital campus with little trouble, just hours after buying an AR-style rifle, authorities said.Here’s a look at what's known about security at the Tulsa facility and other American hospitals:No, the 45-year-old man identified as the shooter, Michael Louis, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, parked his car in an adjoining garage, then went through unlocked doors into the medical building, authorities said.Police guard the entrance to the Natalie Building at the Saint Francis Hospital on June 2, 2022 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

A gunman killed four people in a mass shooting at the Natalie Medical Building on the hospital's campus yesterday. The shooter is also "It is an entry that is open to the public," Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin told reporters Thursday. "He was able to walk in without any type of challenge."RELATED: Tulsa hospital shooter targeted surgeon he blamed for pain, police sayIt was a short walk from that entrance to the office area where Louis fatally shot his primary target, Dr.

Preston Phillips. Police said Phillips recently performed surgery on Louis and that Louis blamed the doctor for chronic pain he still suffered.Once Louis got in, "he began firing at anyone who was in his way," Franklin said.