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FBI Confirms Doctor Killed In El Paso VA Clinic Shooting

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01.07.15 | 4:20 pm

CORRECTS YEAR - Medical personnel waited with other VA and Beaumont Army Medical Center visitors in a parking lot outside the VA following a shooting inside the facility Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. A gunman opened fire at... CORRECTS YEAR - Medical personnel waited with other VA and Beaumont Army Medical Center visitors in a parking lot outside the VA following a shooting inside the facility Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. A gunman opened fire at the veterans' medical clinic in West Texas on Tuesday, killing one other person, officials said. The gunman was also killed. (AP Photo/The El Paso Times, Victor Calzada) MORE LESS

The victim killed in the shooting at a VA clinic in El Paso, Texas, was a doctor, the FBI confirmed to the Washington Post on Wednesday.

The gunman shot and killed himself at the VA clinic attached to the William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Maj. Gen. Stephen Twitty, the commanding general at Fort Bliss, said on Tuesday night. He did not provide details on the identity of the shooter or victim.

The FBI is leading the investigation into the shooting and has not yet determined the motive of the shooter.

FBI officials will hold a press conference on the shooting at 3 p.m. MT on Wednesday.

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