A Texas nurse charged with multiple homicide was found guilty by a Smith County jury. William George Davis, 37, from the quiet town of Hallsville, was supposed to inject air into the arteries of patients after heart surgery, which was fatal for them.
- William George Davis was found guilty of the murder of four patients at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler
- A nurse injected his victims with air while they were recovering from surgeries. According to the expert who spoke during the trial, this resulted in brain damage and death
- The prosecutor’s office announced that it intends to demand the death penalty
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As reported by NBC News, Davis murdered patients between 2017 and 2018, at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, where he was employed as a nurse. He killed four patients. John Lafferty, Ronald Clark, Christopher Greenway, and Joseph Kalina died while recovering from surgery. All of them had unexplained neurological problems. The prosecution intends to demand the death penalty against William George Davis.
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The injection caused damage to the brain
During the trial, Dr. William Yarbrough, a Dallas pulmonologist and professor of internal medicine, explained to the jury how it works on a person after surgery to inject air into the arterial system. Such an injection causes brain damage and death very quickly. The expert added that he was able to determine the presence of air in the arterial system of patients by looking at images from brain scans. It was something he had never seen before in his practice.
He ruled out blood pressure problems or any other cause of death besides air injection, and said it must have happened after surgeries as complications occurred while patients were recovering.
“He liked to kill people”
Defense attorney Phillip Hayes told the jury that the hospital had all sorts of problems and that Davis had become a scapegoat, who was charged only because he was at the point of time he died.
In turn, during the final speech Attorney Chris Gatewood said Davis “just liked to kill people.” And since the defendant left the hospital, the facility has not changed the procedures used there. So it all pointed to Davis’s guilt.
News4SanAntonio posted a photo of Davis at the court hearing on Twitter:
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