Meg Jones
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An armed man was shot and killed as he tried to enter the Milwaukee VA Medical Center Monday night.
Around 8:40 p.m. the man, whose identity was not known late Monday, was stopped by VA police outside the east entrance of the hospital, according to VA officials.
Police told the man to drop his shotgun, but he refused. After the man threatened VA police, they fired multiple shots.
He was taken to the VA hospital's emergency department where he died. Authorities were working late Monday to identify the man.
No one else was injured.
Police officers from West Allis, Milwaukee, West Milwaukee and possibly other agencies were on the scene late Monday. Police shut down multiple entrances to the federally run health care facility, 5000 W. National Ave.
The VA hospital has its own police force and there are police posts at two public entrances. The police post in the east entrance is right inside the doors.
Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm was on the scene, as were other investigators.
The Milwaukee VA medical complex encompasses several buildings on 245 acres including a medical center with almost 200 beds plus a nursing home and a domiciliary for inpatient substance abuse and psychiatric rehabilitation as well as care for PTSD patients.
The medical center handles more than 850,000 visits annually through its extensive outpatient program.
The medical center handles more than 850,000 visits annually through its extensive outpatient program.
Earlier this month a veteran who is a double amputee was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a shooting rampage in a Florida VA hospital emergency room in 2019, wounding several people. VA police at a hospital in Dallas in January shot and killed a man who came to the facility and threatened them with a knife.
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