BALTIMORE � A suspect shot a doctor and then barricaded himself inside a room at Johns Hopkins hospital, where he remained holed up more than an hour after the shooting Thursday, police said.
The doctor was rushed to surgery and is expected to survive, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
He said he did not know the relationship between the gunman and the doctor.
Guglielmi said a small area of the hospital remained locked down and police were preparing a tactical operation to deal with the gunman. People with appointments in other parts of the hospital were encouraged to keep them.
Hopkins spokesman Gary Stephenson said the affected area was the eighth floor of the Nelson building, the main hospital tower.
The rest of the massive hospital, research and medical education complex in remained open, including the emergency department.
With more than 30,000 employees, Johns Hopkins Medicine is among Maryland's largest private employers and the largest in Baltimore. The hospital has more than 1,000 beds and more than 1,700 full-time doctors.
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