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A 30-year-old man charged with murder after two Dallas hospital employees were shot and killed is on parole and has been cleared to give birth at the facility, a Texas prison official said.
Nestor Hernandez was allowed to be with his “significant others” at Methodist Dallas Medical Center during labor Saturday, according to a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
He was jailed for aggravated robbery and was released on parole last October, she said, without giving further details about the circumstances of the shooting.
Authorities said Hernandez fired at the hospital around 11 a.m. Saturday, killing two staff members, before being shot and wounded by a hospital police officer. It is unclear what caused the shooting.
Hospital officials said Hernandez, who was wearing an ankle position monitor at the time, was taken to another hospital for treatment.
The Texas Prison System’s Office of the Inspector General is cooperating with police investigating the shooting, the spokeswoman said. Spokesmen for Dallas police and the hospital declined to provide more information on Sunday about the shooting.
It was followed by a hospital shooting in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September that killed a tourist, and a shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June that killed four people.
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