Nevada hospital gunman targeted doctors over surgery -police
Source: Reuters
Nevada hospital gunman targeted doctors over surgery -police
Source: Reuters - Fri, 20 Dec 2013 05:55 AM
By Eric M. Johnson
Dec 19 (Reuters) - A California man who felt "adverse symptoms" after a 2010 surgery, carefully plotted to open fire at a Nevada medical office where he may have been treated, killing a doctor and wounding two others before shooting himself dead, police said on Thursday.
Police said 51-year-old Alan Frazier from Northern California was suspected in the shooting inside a urology practice adjacent to a hospital in Reno on Tuesday afternoon, the latest incident of deadly U.S. gun violence in public settings.
"We may never know the suspect's exact motive or reason for his actions, but there is indication that his focus was on the physicians at this specific office," Reno Police Lieutenant William Rulla told reporters on Thursday afternoon.
"He had had surgery in 2010 and claimed he was having adverse symptoms due to the surgery," Rulla said.
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awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)should have been packing a six shooter, of course.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)but it would have been a good option at the time.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Surgeons have skilled hands meant for saving life, not taking.
mopinko
(70,197 posts)there wasn't much collateral damage. it would have been better if there were a few more bullets flying around.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Urology ... Surgery ... "adverse results" ... 51 year old male patient uses a gun...
I'm guessing Prostate surgery resulted in impotence.
liberalla
(9,257 posts)so let's kill people... (snarky, I know)
I wonder if we'll get more of the back story on this. Surgery outcomes are not guaranteed. Sometimes human errors or other medical mistakes that occur. There must not have been any corrective procedures available; or he had no insurance, insurance didn't cover it, or they'd already been tried and failed...
Whatever, it was a tragedy that should not have happened.
Nay
(12,051 posts)impotence; it's somewhat common, and generally not the doctor's fault. If I'm wrong, somebody correct me...