KYW Flashback: Fired Nurse Opens Fire In Montgomery County
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (CBS) - A deranged former nurse at the Norristown State Hospital was out for revenge.
It was 1999 and Denis Czajkowski returned to the hospital where he was recently fired. Waving a replica civil war revolver, he began a two-day hostage siege.
Before it was over, he shot and killed the supervisor he blamed for firing him and critically wounded a nursing administrator. The dead woman was shot just as state police finally broke in. The other woman had been shot earlier and again when officers ended the siege.
KYW later learned that a police sharpshooter had a clear shot in the first hours of the standoff, but the order to fire was withheld.
