FBI to question ‘hundreds of witnesses’ in veterans’ hospital shooting in Texas

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The FBI is leading the investigation of the Tuesday afternoon shooting at the El Paso Veterans Affairs Health Care System near the William Beaumont Army Medical Center. The hundreds of potential witnesses were at the hospital “seeking medical assistance, so we understand the difficulties that this situation presents to them, and we’re trying to expeditiously get through those hundreds of witnesses to find out details about this incident,” said Douglas Lindquist, special agent in charge of the FBI’s El Paso office.

Investigators, who took no questions from reporters during a Tuesday night news conference, did not say whether the gunman killed himself or was killed by someone else. They also provided no details on the victim or the gunman and no possible motive for the shooting.

The clinic at the VA hospital will be closed Wednesday, said its acting director, Peter Dancy.

The VA clinic came under scrutiny last year after a federal audit showed it had some of the nation’s longest wait times for veterans trying to see a doctor for the first time. A survey of hundreds of West Texas veterans last year found that they waited an average of more than two months to see a Veterans Affairs mental health professional and even longer to see a physician.

U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke commissioned that survey of more than 690 veterans living in El Paso County. O’Rourke also was active in a congressional probe into long wait times in the VA health care system.

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