Johns Hopkins Hospital Shooting - Hot news today!! A shooting has taken place at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The doctor who was shot at Johns Hopkins hospital is said to be in critical condition. The shooter was reportedly angry about his mother’s medical treatment. He had threatened to jump out of a window at one point. The shooter, tentatively identified as 50-year old Paul Warren Pardus, shot himself and then killed his mother. Multiple sources named the doctor as Dr. David B. Cohen, orthopedic surgeon.

The shooter (later identified as Paul Warren Pardus) shot a doctor and then barricaded himself in a hospital room. The shooting took place on Johns Hopkins’ eighth floor of the main hospital building. Initially the hospital was being evacuated but now it’s only the eighth floor that is on lock down.

The gunman, 50-year-old Paul Warren Pardus, had been listening to the surgeon around midday when he "became emotionally distraught and reacted ... and was overwhelmed by the news of his mother's condition," Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III said.

Pardus pulled a semiautomatic gun from his waistband and shot the doctor once in the abdomen, the commissioner said. The doctor is expected to survive.

Pardus then holed up in the room in a more than two-hour standoff. When officers made their way in, they found Pardus and his mother, 84-year-old Jean Davis, shot to death, he on the floor, she in her bed.

"I guess he just couldn't bear to see her the way she was," said Pardus' brother, 59-year-old Alvin Gibson of Remington, Va. He said their mother suffered from arthritis and rheumatism and had surgery last week, but it didn't help her.

"I guess because he thought my mom was suffering because the surgery wasn't successful and she probably wouldn't be able to walk again," he said about a possible reason for Pardus' actions. "She was a dear, sweet lady."

The doctor, identified by colleagues as orthopedic surgeon David B. Cohen, collapsed outside the eighth-floor room where Pardus' mother was being treated. He was expected to survive.

The standoff led authorities to lock down a small section of the Nelson Building while allowing the rest of the sprawling red-brick medical complex — a cluster of hospital, research and education buildings — to remain open. Hopkins, a world-class institution, is widely known for its cancer research and treatment. It is part of Johns Hopkins University, which has one of the foremost medical schools in the world.