Three dead at US hospital shooting

A US hospital worker has killed two colleagues at a medical center before committing suicide amid a surge in deadly shootings in the country. Police said on Thursday that Mario Ramirez of Alhambra killed the two people at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center in Southern California. Hugo Bustamante of Cypress and Kelly Hales of Redondo Beach were the victims, according to investigators. Bustamante died at the scene but Hales died several hours later from injuries suffered in the shooting, police said. Police Chief Anthony Batts told AP that Ramirez's motive remains under investigation. Last week, an American student killed his classmate at the Henry Ford Community College in Detroit before shooting himself dead. The Long Beach hospital is one of six health care facilities in Southern California operated by the not-for-profit Memorial Care system, run by Memorial Health Services.