Gunmen shoot patient in Colombian hospital

[Judi Lynn]

Video, at the bottom of the page:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/

This hospital was in Medellin, Colombia.

The story should not be confused with the shooting of another Medellin character, also in a hospital, but that one was in Madrid:

Columbian drug baron shot dead in his bed in Madrid hospital where he was awaiting trial

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 11:32 AM on 09th January 2009

One of Colombia's most notorious drug lords has been shot dead after a gunman burst into his hospital room in Madrid.

At least one armed person entered the room in Madrid's October 12th Hospital where Leonidas Vargas was receiving treatment while awaiting trial.

Astonishingly, the gunman asked another patient in the room if he was Vargas. When the patient said no, he took out a gun fitted with a silencer, and shot Vargas - who was asleep - four times.

The execution took place just before 8pm local time, police said.

The hospital was still locked down at 10 p.m. as police searched for his killer, Spanish newspaper El Mundo said.

Neither police nor newspaper websites said whether Vargas had been under police guard.

In the 1980s Vargas, allegedly a former partner of the late Medellin cartel drug chieftain Pablo Escobar, ran his own cocaine manufacturing and smuggling operation out of a remote, jungle-covered area of Colombia's southwestern Caqueta province.

More:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1110502/Columbian-drug-baron-shot-dead-bed-Madrid-hospital-awaiting-trial.html