The FBI is launching an investigation after a doctor was killed Tuesday when a gunman opened fire at a Veterans Affairs medical center at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.
The gunman was shot and killed, but investigators have not said whether the gunman killed himself or was killed by someone else.
Agents have provided no information on a possible motive for the shooting.
But hundreds of patients witnessed the attack at the West Texas veterans' clinic.
"We're trying to expeditiously get through those hundreds of witnesses to find out details about this incident," said Douglas Lindquist, special agent in charge of the FBI's El Paso office.
Authorities believe the shooter acted alone.
The El Paso clinic came under scrutiny last year after a federal audit showed it had some of the nation's longest wait times for veterans trying to see a doctor for the first time.
A survey of hundreds of West Texas veterans found that they waited an average of more than two months to see a VA mental health professional and even longer to see a physician.
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