Authorities described the shooting of a gunman who opened fire at a Pennsylvania hospital as “absolutely justified, beyond any and all doubt.”

The man who authorities say entered a Pennsylvania hospital with zip ties and a pistol over the weekend had recent contact with the hospital's intensive care unit, where he took staff members hostage and was killed in a shootout that left a police officer dead and others injured.

An autopsy concluded his death was caused by being shot in the torso on Saturday inside UPMC Memorial Hospital in York. Andrew Duarte, 30, was declared dead shortly after noon that day at a