PROFILE OF HENRY BELLO THE NEW YORK TERROR DOCTOR

New York – Dr Henry Michael Bello, the
gunman who shot six people at the Bronx-
Lebanon Hospital Centre in New York on
Friday, has been identified as a Nigerian.
Henry Michael Bello
Some Nigerians in New York, who knew Bello,
confirmed to the Correspondent of the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday. And the
NYPD has also identified him to be a Nigerian-
born doctor.
Bello, 45, shot dead a woman, on the 17th
floor and injured at least six others on the
16th floor, before killing himself the New York
Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner
James O’Neil, said.
Five of his victims were seriously injured and
“fighting for their lives”,
Bello went into his former workplace wearing
a white lab coat with an AR-15 machine gun
hidden underneath with the intention of
targeting the same individual.
NYPD officials said Bello asked for a specific
doctor on the 16th floor but when he was told
the doctor was not there, he became angry
and started shooting at everyone.
Officials said Bello tried to set himself on fire
before committing suicide.
Reports said Bello, who was hired at the
hospital in August 2014 as a house physician,
had past arrests for sex abuse, turnstile
jumping, burglary and public urination.
In September 2004, he was arrested and
charged with sex abuse and unlawful
imprisonment after a 23-year-old woman told
officers he had grabbed her crotch area
outside a building on Bleecker Street in
Manhattan and tried to penetrate her through
her underwear, reports said.
Court records indicated that in September
2004, Bello pleaded guilty to unlawful
imprisonment in the second degree, a
misdemeanour, and was sentenced to
community service, while the felony sexual
abuse charge was dismissed, according to
reports.
He was going to be fired by the hospital, after
reports of sexual harassments, but instead
chose to resign in February 2015 in lieu of
termination