According to police, the crime took place around 1:15 p.m. A hospital worker heard loud bangs coming from the 86-year-old patient’s room and found the woman lying in bed with “obvious injuries”. The employee ran out of the room and immediately started the rescue chain.
At that moment, there was another noise in the room and the woman’s 88-year-old husband was found seriously injured. According to police, the Austrian national was initially taken to another hospital for treatment. His condition was critical and he succumbed to his injuries. According to current information, the police believe that the man first shot his wife and then himself.
According to police, no one else is in danger
The emergency doctor could only determine that the woman was dead. She was in a room at the former Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital at the time of the crime. According to the hospital, he had been under inpatient treatment since July. According to police, no one else is in danger. A gun was recovered from the room.
A crime scene at the hospital a few years ago
In 2019, the Favoriten clinic was once the scene of a crime scene, when a patient stabbed a doctor at the heart clinic. The 33-year-old, who was waiting for a 64-year-old senior doctor in a fully occupied ambulance, initially suffered life-threatening injuries. The act, fueled by delusions, led to a debate about tightening safety precautions in hospitals as the cardiologist luckily survived, Vienna Health Association (WiGeV) spokesman Markus Peteriva said when asked by APA.
“We have open hospitals,” emphasized Peteriva. He emphasized that patients and visitors can “go freely without bag checks and the like at the entrance, and that’s a deliberate case.” With more than three million patient contacts per year, security measures at airports are “not realistic” to implement. In the present tragic case, “A man had a plan and executed it. “I don’t know how you can prevent something like that,” the spokesman said.
Help in case of crisis
Reports of (potential) suicide can worsen the situation for those in crisis. All over Austria and in the federal states Contact points that provide advice and support in the event of a crisis Offer.
The Austria-wide telephone consultation service can be accessed free of charge at 142 at any time. Adolescent and Youth Helpline also offers counseling on 147.