Tacoma police are investigating after St. Joseph Medical Center went into lockdown due to a shooting late Friday night.
According to police, just after 11 p.m., a staff member heard a gunshot, and hospital security found blood and a shell casing in an elevator.
Officers cleared the building and confirmed via video surveillance footage that the people involved in the incident left the hospital in vehicles. Police believe they were visitors at the hospital.
No patients are known to have been injured, police said.
The hospital released a statement about the incident Saturday afternoon:
“On Friday, Dec. 16, an altercation occurred between visitors in the elevator of the main
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