Mother of the officer who were killed in the Pennsylvania Hospital, mourn the son of shooting with “Warrior Heart”

York, Pa.-das discomfort, which grows in Nancy Duarte Matarese on Saturday, quickly bloomed in full fear when she was accompanied in a small family room in the Wellspan York Hospital. It was a facility that was not far from the UPMC Memorial Hospital, in which her son, the police officer Andrew Duarte, was involved in a shootout a few hours earlier.

“I thought:” This is not a good thing, because if he was still with us, they would bring me to him, “said Duarde Matarese.

“I had the feeling that Andrew had been called to his eternal home with the Lord and that he was no longer with us.”

Their worst fears have been confirmed. Andrew had been killed after an encounter with a shooter who had entered the hospital outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and had taken hostages from shooting, in which several people were injured.

It was not 24 hours later Duarte Matarese was ahead of the West York Borough police department, which visited a monument of flowers, candles and balloons, which were founded by members of the community. There she remembered the “amazing young man”, who was her only child.

“He had a war heart and a war of warrior,” said Duarte Matarese in an interview with NBC News.

The alleged shooter, Diogenes Archangel Ortiz (49), entered the facility with a bag with a pistol and a zipper binding and went directly to the intensive care unit, the authorities say.

Tim Baker, District Prosecutor of York County, said he believes that this is intended.

“Diogenes Archangel Ortiz previously seemed to have contact to a medical purpose with another person a week a week,” he said.

Other residents of the community also appeared according to the tragedy.

“[I] Have a text from my wife who works in the intensive care unit. And she said she loved me and that she didn't know if she would do it, ”said Tad Pequignot.

Mary Eck lived her whole life in York and passed the memorial on Sunday afternoon.

“A hospital? They would think they were safe, but it is simply not more, ”she said.

Betsy Small visited her mother on the third floor of Upmc when the incident occurred.

“I was only there about 11 minutes and heard that the alarms go out,” she said.

Her 77 -year -old mother was bedridden when the hospital was blocked. Small says she made sure that the room was closed and then hidden in the bathroom in the room. She said she heard people crying under her crying and loud noises.

“With the school's shootings and the shootings in the hospital … they question their security,” she said. Small says that she could only leave around 4 p.m. when the building had been cleared.

Since the residents hope to return to a feeling of normality, Duarte Matarese said that she was humiliated by the reaction of both the community and the civil servants.

“This is a small, small district, a small, small community, and to let people come out, they don't necessarily know him at all, but to show their support. I really appreciate it. “

She said she was closely with her son and he was always a pleasure to be with him. She believed that he had given unique talents to be an officer.

“I am not surprised that he answered the call. I am not surprised that he was one who was in front. He was a powerful warrior, ”she added. “This is Andrew.”