New Windsor mother shot during fatal scuffle inside St. Luke’s Hospital shares emotional account

News12 Long Island ^

[Impala64ssa]

Newburgh was named an All American city in the 50’s. All that changed in the mid 60’s when I-84 and the Newburgh Beacon Bridge opened

[Brian Griffin]

Apparently, the security guard bullet that killed Ortiz ended up in her leg.

[Jeff Vader]

yup, over penetration

[silverleaf]

Lol!

[Redcitizen]

The author was paid by the word.

[heartwood]

I kept reading the name as Hathursruhe. Very German that way. Bot not really.

[Inyo-Mono]

Thought this was Merry Olde England, not New England…

I did too!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"The author was paid by the word." Yes, seems like they all are, huh? "Logorhea" at its worst.

I told Grok "Write a concise summary of this story." Grok isn't paid by the word, so you get this...

On Thursday night at Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh, 45-year-old Carlos Ortiz allegedly pulled a fire alarm in the ER lobby, then attacked a security guard with a knife, prompting a second armed guard to fatally shoot him. Nearby, 46-year-old Chamika Hathurusinghe, a mother from New Windsor evacuating with her husband, was struck in the upper thigh by the gunfire and required surgery to remove the bullet.

In an emotional account, Hathurusinghe recounted the sudden chaos, feeling numbness in her leg as she narrowly avoided worse injury, screaming for help amid the pandemonium while seeing Ortiz bleeding out, and vowing never to return to the hospital due to the trauma.

I told Grok "Tighten it up further. Why need "emotional" or "sudden"?" And I got...

At Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh, 45-year-old Carlos Ortiz pulled a fire alarm in the ER, then stabbed a security guard with a knife. A second armed guard shot and killed Ortiz. A stray bullet struck 46-year-old Chamika Hathurusinghe of New Windsor in the thigh; she required surgery. Hathurusinghe, who was evacuating with her husband, said she will never return to the hospital. The facility stayed open; the incident remains under investigation with no charges filed.

I wrote "Do you really need 'stray'" and it replied...

At Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh, 45-year-old Carlos Ortiz pulled a fire alarm in the ER, then stabbed a security guard with a knife. A second armed guard shot and killed Ortiz. A bullet struck 46-year-old Chamika Hathurusinghe of New Windsor in the thigh; she required surgery. Hathurusinghe, evacuating with her husband, said she will never return to the hospital. The facility remained open; the incident is under investigation with no charges filed.

Now we are getting somewhere!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Between the TV-station newswriting and the English-as-a-third-or-fourth-language gibberish from the victim, this was not the easiest story to understand.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Thought this was Merry Olde England, not New England…

Whatever TV-station nitwit wrote this obviously thought that the entire world would know where Newburgh is.

[NonValueAdded]

Brandished a knife yet she was shot ... friendly fire incident?

[OldHarbor]

I found this explanation from the victim’s son.

"The security guard was trying to get the guy with the knife. And I'm guessing the bullet just went through the dude with the knife and hit her in the leg," said Hathurusinghe's son Chareen

[gitmo]

Thanks.
I was trying to find out what country this was in.

[gitmo]

“I thought they would fall into my body...

Who did she think was going to fall into her body?

Weird article.

[Paladin2]

“surviving a fatal shooting”

Amazing.

I suspect that the reportage is less than amazing.

[StAnDeliver]

"I kept reading the name as Hathursruhe. Very German that way. But not really."

You are more right than you know.

Sri Lanka was colonized good and hard and the Burghers are still there in force, and have certain opinions about the natives. So not a surprise this woman had 'tude even though she was an innocent bystander and uh, shot.

Watch Bourdain's No Reservations visit to Sri Lanka -- one of the most striking scenes is his visit to the "Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon" country club, which could have stepped right out of Afrikaa and the Dutch Cape Colony.