The gunman who went on a deadly rampage inside a Bronx hospital Friday was a former doctor there with a criminal past that includes getting busted for a frightening sex attack on a stranger, The Post has learned.
Henry Bello, 45, was arrested Aug. 28, 2004, in Manhattan following an incident in which a 23-year-old woman said an assailant grabbed her crotch, held her arms, lifted her up and carried her off, saying, “You’re coming with me,” law-enforcement sources said.
Bello was charged with sex abuse and unlawful imprisonment, sources said. The disposition of the case was unclear. Bello was also busted in Manhattan on Oct. 9, 2009, but all records in that case are sealed, sources said.
On Friday, Bello wore a white medical coat while using a semiautomatic rifle to kill at least one person and wound several others inside Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, where he formerly worked, sources said. The bloodbath took place over five floors of the medical center, and there was an explosion on another floor, sources said.
Bello used the rifle to kill himself after cops converged on the hospital, sources said.
A grisly photo posted on Twitter shows Bello lying face up on a blood-stained floor as an armed man stands over him.
The Bronx-Lebanon Web site lists Bello as a medical doctor there, and federal Health and Human Services Web site says he was entered into the National Provider Identifer database in 2014 as a “Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program.” But he wasn’t licensed to practice medicine in New York, according to databases maintained by the state Health and Education Departments
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