Elderly couple dead after shooting at Cobourg, Ont., hospital
COBOURG, Ont. — A place intended for healing became a scene of violence and trauma when two rounds of gunfire erupted in a southern Ontario hospital, killing an elderly married couple and leaving other patients fearing for their lives.
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit said details of the Friday night shooting at the Northumberland Hills Hospital in Cobourg, Ont., are still emerging, and two separate police investigations have been launched.
SIU spokesman Jason Gennaro said a 70-year-old man and 76-year-old woman, who were married to each other and lived within an hour of Cobourg, were both admitted to txhe hospital’s emergency room late Friday night with unknown ailments.
Around 11 p.m., Gennaro said police were called to the scene after receiving reports that shots had been fired in the triage room where both the man and the woman were lying side by side on gurneys.