BAKERSFIELD (KGET) — Bakersfield Police shot a man with a gun inside the Bakersfield Heart Hospital late Friday afternoon. The hospital has been cleared of all other threats, and only the suspect was shot. There was no immediate word on his condition.

Police administration said a news conference would be held sometime Friday night.

It all happened at about 5 p.m. at the hospital, on Buck Owens Boulevard near the iconic Bakersfield sign.

Witnesses told Channel 17’s Mary Kate Paquette the gun-wielding man walked down the hospital hallways with handgun before police intervened.

There were no immediate confirmed reports of other injuries.

Channel 17 reporters saw an ambulance followed closely by a police car racing from the scene with red lights and sirens activated.

Tami Myers and her sister were at the hospital to sit with their father, who suffered a heart attack earlier in the day.

“We were sitting in the waiting room when a woman came running in and said there was man with gun,” Myers said.

“They made us go into a nurses station. They locked the hospital down and then, all of a sudden, the back door came flying open and they said he was in there.

“Me and my sister and my little girl went running down the hall. We turned the corner and there he was standing here.

“And he had a gun.

“And he told me, ‘Don’t worry, I’m not going to shoot you.’

“And we took off running and when we got out to the front we dove into the car with these people and they took us away,”

“But we did hear six shots,” said her sister, Sherry Biddles.

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