Days before a hostage situation turned deadly, a physician assistant says he spoke to the man who killed a police officer and wounded staff at a Pennsylvania hospital and told him his loved one had died.

A gunman who held medical staff hostage before killing a police officer and wounding five others at a hospital in south-central Pennsylvania Saturday is believed to have visited the facility in the days leading up to the incident,

Authorities said the suspect held hospital workers hostage, opened fire and shot people including a doctor, a nurse, a custodian, and 3 officers.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A funeral service will be held later this week for a Pennsylvania police officer shot and killed while responding to a hospital intensive care unit where authorities said a gunman had shot three hospital employees and taken staff members hostage last weekend.