Shooting at Corewell Hospital in Troy sheds light on violence in health care

Morning in the morning Firing inside a parking garage at Coreville Health Beumont Trays Hospital Chaos spread around the Troy community.

The first 911 call came from the hospital security guard at 7:08 am, which reported that there was an active shooter on the campus. Troy police responded in less than five minutes when they realized that the shooting was a target attack between two known persons.

Troy Police Chief Josh Jones said, “In fact, we had no custody. We had hospital staff and patients who believe this is an active shooter.”

The suspect, who fled the scene after shooting the victim, was caught at 9am and 45 minutes when he surrendered in front of police at a house on the Breesway Drive in Macom Township.

Until Thursday evening, the suspect’s name and purpose was not known. Police have confirmed that the two men involved were friends who were eliminated and they both worked in the hospital.

“It has been a growing and wider problem,” said Stacey Francovich, who works for a healthcare reduction center at Lawrence Technology University.

Francovich said she was not deadly shooting in Coreville on Thursday, while noting surprising statistics that health care workers were five times more likely to face violence in their daily lives.

“It can come from patients, patients’ families and sometimes their peers,” said Francovich. “Trying to manage the health system is a difficult challenge, and it is very difficult to try to predict it.”

The focus of healthcare violence, which was opened in 2024, collects and sets data from all over the country to begin to reduce the results of violence like Thursday morning.

“Some of these warning symbols are trying to understand,” said Francovich.

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