A nurse who survived an armed man’s attack on an intensive care unit in a Pennsylvania hospital said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that she was held against him as a shield at gunpoint, arms zip-tied behind her back, as they walked through a doorway and encountered a phalanx of responding police officers.
Jason Huff, Breighner’s partner of more than 20 years, also described the incident in a separate Facebook post on Wednesday that said the attacker had pulled the trigger three times with the gun against Breighner’s head, but it was apparently out of ammunition.
Trostle said the attacker “hauled me off the floor pushing me into the adjacent wall,” where Breighner's photo was among pictures of the group’s leadership on the wall.
Nurse Tosha Trostle wrote that she had begged the attacker to let her go and that he pushed the gun against her neck and spine.
Authorities say Diogenes Archangel-Ortiz, 49, brought a gun and zip ties to UPMC Memorial Hospital in York on Saturday morning and was holding hostages when responding officers fatally shot him.
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