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Texas nurse guilty of killing patients by injecting them with air

[서울=아시아뉴스통신] 레악카나기자 송고시간 2021-10-22 00:38

Authorities said it was only once doctors saw CT scans that showed air in the patients' brains that they realized something was amiss. Dr William Yarbrough, a Dallas-based pulmonologist, told the jury that he had never observed such a case in his decades in medicine.(Photo by=Getty Images)

[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] A Texas nurse has been found guilty of the murder of four patients who died after he injected them with air following heart surgeries. William Davis, 37, was convicted of capital murder by a jury on Tuesday and could now face the death penalty, BBC reported.

Prosecutors said he targeted seven people from June 2017 to January 2018. Christus Mother Frances Hospital, where the attacks took place, said it hoped that the "jury's verdict helps bring some closure to those harmed". The men, aged between 47 and 74, experienced "seizure-like symptoms" and died from fatal brain damage after the air was injected into their arterial lines. The court heard that the four men killed by Mr. Davis had initially been recovering well from their operations and that doctors had been at a loss as to how their conditions had deteriorated so rapidly.

During the trial, security footage was played of Davis entering the room of one of the patients, whose heart monitor alarm sounded just three minutes later. He later died from the injection. Davis' lawyer, Philip Hayes, claimed during the trial that there was no evidence that the men had died from foul play and suggested that Davis was being made a scapegoat for a hospital with serious procedural issues.  Davis will remain in custody at the Smith County Jail on an $8.75 million bail bond.


 

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