Police are searching for a man who they said robbed and possibly pistol-whipped a doctor and a receptionist at Suburban General Hospital's professional building in Bellevue tonight.

Officers with police dogs were searching near the building at North Jackson and Lincoln avenues.

Bellevue Police Chief Matt Sentner said the man they are looking for is likely a patient of the doctor's who confronted him in a basement office just after 6 p.m. A "struggle ensued" and three shots were fired, though no one was struck, Chief Sentner said. It is unclear whether the man hit the pair with the butt of the pistol he was carrying, the chief said.

The man then fled. Chief Sentner said the crime was possibly drug-related.

Police from several agencies, including the city and Allegheny County, responded to the scene, drawing many onlookers to the streets.

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