A man who took hostages in a Pennsylvania hospital during a shooting that killed a police officer and wounded five other people highlights the rising violence against U.S. healthcare workers and the challenge of protecting them.

A police officer died and others were injured in what local officials described a hostage crisis involving a man with a gun and zip ties.

A police officer was killed and a gunman died in a shootout at a central Pennsylvania hospital Saturday, according to officials. West York Borough police announced that Officer Andrew Duarte died while responding to a 10:43 a.

The man who authorities say entered a Pennsylvania hospital with zip ties and a pistol over the weekend had recent contact with the hospital's intensive care unit, where he took staff members hostage and was killed in a shootout that left a police officer dead and others injured.

The suspect, Diogenes Archangel Ortiz, entered the hospital with handgun and zip ties Saturday morning and took several staff members hostage, state officials said.

The Denver Police Department is mourning the loss of a former DPD officer killed in a shootout with a gunman in Pennsylvania Saturday.