One person is dead after a shooting occurred at the MultiCare Allenmore Hospital in Tacoma Wednesday night.

The shooting happened within an emergency room at the hospital sometime after 7 p.m. Wednesday. According to the Tacoma Police Department, officers believe the shooting was targeted. A woman and her boyfriend were allegedly involved in a fight with someone outside of the hospital before the person followed the couple into the emergency room and opened fire.

The woman, 21, had a bullet graze her. Her boyfriend was killed in the shooting.

“I know that she’s pretty shaken up because her boyfriend, I guess, like, pushed her out of the way, so she just watched him get shot pretty bad,” the woman’s uncle told KIRO 7 . “I’m more worried about her mental and emotional state right now,

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