Authorities described the shooting of a gunman who opened fire at a Pennsylvania hospital as “absolutely justified, beyond any and all doubt.”

Diogenes Archangel-Ortiz was removed from the hospital by security the previous night following a diagnosis that there was no other treatment available for his wife, the official said.

A police officer who was killed while confronting an armed gunman inside a Pennsylvania hospital last weekend was an East Bay native. Officer Andrew Duarte, 30, was killed Saturday after responding to an active shooting at a hospital in York County,