FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two doctors who treat military veterans were working at emergency room desks when a colleague screamed Wednesday night that someone had a gun.
The physicians, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Riviera Beach, heard about three shots.
One of the doctors, identified by his initials B.G. in a federal criminal affidavit, alerted everyone in the emergency room that they were in an active shooter situation.
B.G. saw a man on a scooter, who the FBI said was Larry Ray Bon, 59, an Army veteran and double amputee.
Bon was armed with a black handgun and screaming about cigarettes, according to the affidavit.
The cellphone video shows a baby dangling from a belt or scarf around his neck, eyes "bulging and watering" as he is held above a bed inside base housing at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, according to the Camden County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
ST. PETERSBURG — On Dec. 10, retired Marine Col. Jim Turner put on his dress uniform and medals and drove to the Bay Pines Department of Veterans Affairs complex. He got out of his truck, sat down on top of his military records and took his own life with a rifle.
An 8-year-old girl is in critical condition after police say her father, a U.S. Coast Guard serviceman, killed her mother and young brother before killing himself.
