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What police said about active shooter situation at Corewell hospital in Troy

Troy police say shooting is isolated incident

TROY, Mich. – One person was shot and injured in an Oakland County hospital parking garage Thursday morning, according to police.

Police said a hospital employee shot and injured another employee in a parking garage at Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital at around 7:08 a.m. on Thursday, March 20, 2025, morning.

Sources told Local 4 that staff received the following message Thursday morning:

THIS IS AN EMERGENCY -- There is an ACTIVE SHOOTER Troy Hospital in the Parking Structure building. Police are enroute. Please take immediate personal safety measure and follow the run, hide, fight guidelines. For those not currently at the facility, stay away. Do not return to the facility until the all clear has been signaled.

The shooting caused the hospital to go into a lockdown. Schools and daycares in the area were notified about the shooting and placed into a soft lockdown.

Troy police Lt. Ben Hancock held a press briefing just after 9 a.m. on Thursday to provide the media and public with more information about the shooting.

Hancock said the shooting appeared to be a targeted incident between two employees that knew each other. The suspect is accused of firing a handgun five times. The victim, a 25-year-old man from Troy, was shot twice in the arm and is being treated at the hospital. He is stable.

Police are still working to clear the hospital, but they do not believe the suspect is still in the hospital at this time. The victim was able to identify the shooter to investigators, who have declined to release any information about the suspect during the investigation.

Sources told Local 4 that the suspect was taken into custody at a neighborhood in Macomb Township just before 9:45 a.m. on Thursday.

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