Indian Origin Pediatrician shoots self after killing hostage doctor in US
Hostages who escaped the office told officers on the scene that the Pediatrician had entered the clinic carrying a pistol, a shotgun, and two duffel bags, police said.;
Austin: A physician with a terminal cancer diagnosis killed a pediatrician and then himself after taking hostages at a doctor's office in Austin, police said Wednesday.
A SWAT team found the bodies of Dr Katherine Lindley Dodson and Dr Bharat Narumanchi late Tuesday after negotiators spent hours trying to speak to the people inside the office, police said.
Narumanchi did not work at the clinic where he held five adult employees, hostages, for hours, Austin police Lt Jeff Greenwalt said. Four were either let go or escaped, and no children were there at the time, he said.
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Hostages who escaped the office told officers on the scene that Narumanchi had entered Tuesday carrying a pistol, a shotgun, and two duffel bags, police said. Authorities have not yet said how Dodson and Narumanchi died.
Narumanchi had applied for a volunteer position at the clinic a week ago and was declined, but otherwise had no known connection to Dodson or the clinic, Greenwalt said.
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