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A photo showed the doctor on a blood-spattered floor as police stood over him.<br><br>Now, detectives are trying to piece together what prompted Bello to snap two years after he was forced out, and whether he was hunting for someone in particular when he went to the 16th floor and started shooting.<br><br>"There are many, many details that we're still putting together," said Mayor Bill de Blasio said, adding that terrorism was not involved in the attack. "This was a horrible situation unfolding in a place that people associated with care and comfort, a situation that came out of nowhere."<br><br>His former co-workers described a man who was aggressive, loud, and threatening.<br><br>"All the time he was a problem," said Dr. David Lazala, who trained Bello as a family medicine doctor. When Bello was forced out in 2015, he sent Lazala an email blaming him for the dismissal.<br><br>"We fired him because he was kind of crazy," Dr. Maureen Kwankam told the Daily News. "He promised to come back and kill us then."<br><br>People described a chaotic scene as gunfire erupted, spreading terror throughout the medical facility as employees locked themselves inside rooms and patients feared for their lives after hearing an announcement warning of someone in the building with a weapon.<br><br>"I thought I was going to die," said Renaldo Del Villar, a patient who was in the third-floor emergency room getting treatment for a lower back injury.<br><br>Shortly after receiving a 911 call about an active shooter, police officers went floor by floor, their guns drawn, looking for the gunman. Fifteen minutes later they confirmed he was dead in the building.<br><br>Bello may have doused himself with an accelerant like gasoline and tried to set himself on fire before shooting himself, officials said. 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He was arrested again in 2009 on a charge of unlawful surveillance, after two different women reported he was trying to look up their skirts with a mirror. That case was eventually sealed.<br><br>It was not immediately clear if the hospital was aware of his criminal history when he was hired.<br><br>Two surgeons at the hospital told the AP that all six victims were in critical condition, but they were expected to survive. Medical staff at the hospital immediately treated all the patients in its emergency department. The victims largely suffered gunshot wounds to the head, chest and abdomen, they said. The most seriously wounded was shot in the liver, said the surgeons, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to speak publicly.<br><br>Employees and their loved ones described the horrifying moments immediately after the shooting as they scrambled for information.<br><br>Garry Trimble said his fianc�e, hospital employee Denise Brown, called from inside to tell him about the gunman.<br><br>"She woke me up and told me there was a situation, somebody's out there shooting people," Trimble said as he waited for Brown to leave the hospital. "I could hear in her voice she was shaking and about to cry."<br><br>Brown, 53, emerged around 6 p.m. - hours after the initial report of a shooter at about 2:50 p.m. - and said employees had only recently been freed to leave their secure areas.<br><br>"I was scared," said Brown, a Bronx resident who described herself as the hospital's patient ambassador. "Very scary. It was like something you'd see on TV. 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