The gunman who opened fire inside Pennsylvania’s UPMC Memorial Hospital faced the death of a loved one who’d been in the ICU just days before the shooting.

Authorities described the shooting of a gunman who opened fire at a Pennsylvania hospital as “absolutely justified, beyond any and all doubt.”

The shooter has been identified as Diogenes Archangel Ortiz. He allegedly entered the hospital with a handgun and zip ties.

A funeral service will be held later this week for a Pennsylvania police officer shot and killed while responding to a hospital intensive care unit where authorities said a gunman had shot three hospital employees and taken staff members hostage last weekend.

A physician’s assistant at UPMC Memorial Hospital claims he delivered devastating news to Diogenes Archangel-Ortiz in the days before the man returned to the ICU and opened fire, killing a