Enid hospital shooting at Integris Health Center leaves James Bode security guard & suspect gunman, Dedrick Max Bloss dead following domestic incident at nearby resident migrating to medical facility.
A gunman and a hospital security guard are dead after shots were fired at the Integris Health Center late Sunday night in Enid, Oklahoma authorities said.
Officials with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said the incident started with a domestic call just before 11 p.m. at a home near the hospital. OSBI said Enid police then tracked the suspect’s vehicle to Integris Health off Owen K. Garriott Road a few minutes later.
When they got to the hospital, they found the suspect, a habitual offender known to law enforcement parked outside the front doors, KOCO reported.
James Bode, Enid, Oklahoma hospital security guard killed in shooting
OSBI said the suspect, since identified as 46-year-old-man, Dedrick Max Bloss, then shot at officers before going into the hospital and firing several shots inside. Police went inside, finding a victim dead before shooting and killing the suspect.
According to the OSBI, the victim was a security guard at the hospital. The victim’s name has not been released.
Nevertheless social media alluded to the victim as that of James Bode, with one post on Facebook stating, ‘Has anyone heard is James bode ok he is the security guard at bass hospital.’
Responded one commentator, ‘News just said that the security guard didn’t make it.’
Posted another on FB: ‘JW was a true man. I got the privilege of sitting next to him during all of our CLEET training classes. He was a gentle giant who had some wild stories. From his career in law enforcement to his life of martial arts. He took his job serious as one should.’
Habitual offender
Hunter McKee with the OSBI said law enforcement acted quickly to stop the gunman.
‘We’re very fortunate that no one else was hit. This could have been a lot worse. We’re fortunate officers ended the threat as quickly as they did,’ McKee said according to News9.
A 2002 report described Bloss, then 22 years old, as one of four inmates who’d escaped from the Logan County Jail before surrendering to Enid Police later that day. Enid Police Capt. Brian O’Rourke said the wanted man was located at an apartment. Bloss had been jailed on an assault charge at the time of his escape, Newson6 reported.
The hospital remains open, but patients are asked to use side entrances as the investigation is ongoing. Authorities had yet to say what led to the gunman barging to the hospital facility and their relation to the entity.
