Serial Killer Texas nurse convicted of killing her patients by injecting them with air for fun.
A Texas medic has been convicted of murdering four patients who died after injecting air into them following heart surgery.
William Davis, 37, was convicted of capital murder by a jury on Tuesday and could now face the death penalty.
Prosecutors said he targeted seven people from June 2017 to January 2018. Christus Mother Frances Hospital, where the attacks took place, said he hoped “the jury’s verdict will help end the injured persons “.
The men, aged 47 to 74, experienced “seizure-like symptoms” and died from fatal brain damage after injecting air into their arterial lines.
The court heard that the four men killed by Mr Davis initially recovered well from their operations and that doctors did not understand how their condition had deteriorated so quickly.
Authorities said it wasn’t until doctors saw CT scans showing air in patients’ brains that they realized something was wrong.
Dr William Yarbrough, a Dallas-based pulmonologist, told the jury that he had never seen such a case in his decades in medicine.
William George Davis could be sentenced to die by lethal injection
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During the trial, security footage was released of Davis entering the bedroom of one of the patients, whose heart monitor alarm sounded three minutes later. He later died from the injection.
Davis’ attorney, Philip Hayes, claimed during the trial that there was no evidence the men died of crime and suggested Davis had become the scapegoat for a hospital with serious procedural issues.
Speaking at the trial, Jacob Putman, the Smith County District Attorney in Texas, said, “It turns out that a hospital is the perfect place to hide for a serial killer.”
Prosecutors will now seek the death penalty for Davis, who they say “enjoyed” committing the murders and “enjoyed killing people.”
Davis will remain in custody at Smith County Jail on $ 8.75 million bail