米病院で男が医師ら４人射殺　術後の痛み恨む

【タルサＡＦＰ＝時事】米オクラホマ州タルサの病院で１日、銃を持った男が４人を射殺し、自殺した。地元警察は２日、犠牲者の１人は男の腰痛を治療する手術を担当した外科医だったと発表。男が術後の痛みについて、医師に恨みを持っていたことを明らかにした。（写真は米オクラホマ州タルサで、銃撃事件が起きた病院に出動した警察。同市警察提供）
　事件では、マイケル・ルイス容疑者がライフルと拳銃を持ち病院に侵入。医師２人と受付係１人、患者１人を殺害した。
　タルサ市警の記者会見によると、ルイス容疑者は最近この病院で手術を受けており、術後に腰痛が続いていることを病院側に訴えていた。容疑者が所持していた書簡には、手術を担当した外科医を殺害するために病院を訪れたこと、その邪魔をする人は殺すつもりであることが書かれていたという。この外科医以外の３人の犠牲者は巻き添えとなったとみられている。
　米国では先週、テキサス州の小学校で男が銃を乱射し、児童１９人と教員２人が死亡する事件が起きたばかり。
　一連の事件を受け、銃の規制強化が改めて叫ばれている。だが銃暴力が年々深刻さを増す一方で、米議会は根本的な解決に向け新法を制定できずにいる。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/06/03-13:26）

The gunman who shot dead four people at a hospital in the US state of Oklahoma killed the surgeon whom he blamed for pain after back surgery, police said Thursday.
The suspect, identified as Michael Louis, stormed into the Saint Francis hospital in the city of Tulsa on Wednesday with a rifle and a handgun, in the latest mass shooting in the United States in recent weeks.
Louis had recently been operated on by surgeon Preston Phillips at the hospital and had called the clinic to complain of continuing back pain, Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin said during a press conference.
Police found a letter on the suspect, which made it clear that he came in with the intent to kill Dr. Phillips and anyone who got in his way,? Franklin said.
He blamed Dr. Phillips for the ongoing pain following the surgery.
As well as Phillips, the other victims included another physician, a receptionist and a patient.
They stood in the way and Lewis gunned them down, Franklin said, adding Louis then shot himself.
The suspect purchased an semi-automatic gun at a local gun shop shortly before the shooting, police said.
The killings come as families in Texas bury their dead after a school shooting left 19 young children and two teachers dead last week.
The tragedies have prompted calls for tighter gun control legislation but US lawmakers have failed to pass significant new laws despite years of worsening gun violence.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 233 mass shootings this year in the United States. It defines mass shootings as when four or more people are injured or killed in a single event, not including the shooter.