Police dismiss report of gunman in New York hospital

news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new York, March 10 (Xinhua) -- The reported presence of an active shooter inside the news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new York-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, the U.S. state of news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new York, has been confirmed as a false alarm, local law enforcement officials said on Sunday night.

news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new York State news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">news.cn/en/tag/i0xjfggad13bea8878acb9/index.html" target="_blank">news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">news.cn/en/tag/i0xjnkkbb14ffd0571b46d/index.html" target="_blank">Police and Westchester County news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">news.cn/en/tag/i0xjfggad13bea8878acb9/index.html" target="_blank">news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">news.cn/en/tag/i0xjnkkbb14ffd0571b46d/index.html" target="_blank">Police officials responded to a report at around 9:00 p.m. local time (0100 GMT on Monday) of an armed man on the hospital building's sixth floor, local media reported earlier.

After over two hours of search and investigation, the news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">news.cn/en/tag/i0xjfggad13bea8878acb9/index.html" target="_blank">news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">news.cn/en/tag/i0xjnkkbb14ffd0571b46d/index.html" target="_blank">Police said that there was neither evidence of a gunman nor sign of anyone injured in the hospital.

Local news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">news station NBC news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">news 4 NY said that two patients in the hospital thought they saw a man with a gun and reported it to the nurse, triggering the massive news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">news.cn/en/tag/i0xjfggad13bea8878acb9/index.html" target="_blank">news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">news.cn/en/tag/i0xjnkkbb14ffd0571b46d/index.html" target="_blank">Police response.

Some people in the hospital's emergency room were told to leave, while others in other parts of the building were asked to stay calm and sit around waiting to leave, the news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new York Daily news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">news quoted witnesses as saying.

The hospital has been given the all-clear, according to media reports.