YORK (AP) – The stories of two nurses who survived a gunman’s attack on an intensive care unit at York’s UPMC Memorial Hospital were shared in Facebook posts that reveal new details. Nurse Tosha Trostle wrote that the attacker held her against him as a shield on Saturday as they walked through a doorway and encountered responding police officers. Trostle recalls praying as she heard gunshots and smelled smoke, then being told to run. The partner of nurse Jessica Breighner posted that the attacker had repeatedly pulled the trigger with the gun against that nurse’s head, but it was apparently out of ammunition. The attacker, Diogenes Archangel-Ortiz and Police Officer Andrew Duarte were killed in the incident. Duarte’s funeral is Friday at a church in Red Lion, which will be livestreamed, but not open to the general public.
OFC. ANDREW DUARTE
