Elderly patient fires gun in UTMC hospital room; no injuries reported

KNOXVILLE, Tenn — Knoxville Police Department officers responded to the University of Tennessee Medical Center, where a gun had been fired in a patient’s room on Monday morning.

Officers said that an elderly woman who was being treated at UTMC grabbed a gun from her purse and fired a round into the ground.

No one was hurt, and the woman’s husband disarmed her. UTMC security officers secured the gun…

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