Community mourns pediatrician killed by other doctor
Pediatrician killed by other doctor remembered by family, patients
The community is in mourning after learning the pediatrician was killed in a hostage situation that lasted more than six hours.
AUSTIN, Texas - Flowers lined the entrance and the sign along the Children’s Medical Group in Central Austin on Wednesday, honoring the life of Dr. Katherine Lindley Dodson. She is the most honorable, loving, giving human being, said family friend Kristin Gish.
Dr. Dodson was a mentor for Brandi Loomis, who said she was a shining light. To know that her life was cut short in such a horrible manner is devastating for us, she said.
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AUSTIN, Texas — They were born two months apart in the late 1970s, went on to pursue the same area of medicine and eventually wound up in the same city
Dr Katherine Lindley Dodson was shot and killed on Tuesday in Austin, Texas
Another doctor, Bharat Narumanchi, took five people hostage inside the clinic
He was terminally ill and had been turned down by the clinic for a voluntary job
He had not met Dodson before Tuesday s siege, according to local media
Narumanchi had most recently practiced medicine in California
He is believed to have had family in the Austin area, according to reports
On Wednesday night a vigil was held for Dodson and her patients paid tribute
Pediatrician killed by other doctor remembered by family, patients
By Amanda Ruiz and Lauren Reid
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Pediatrician killed by other doctor remembered by family, patients
A makeshift memorial has been made in front of Children’s Medical Group in Central Austin, where Dr. Dodson worked, and where she had been killed.
AUSTIN, Texas - Dr. Katherine Dodson is being remembered as a woman who radiated light, love, and joy. The community is in mourning after learning the pediatrician was killed in a hostage situation that lasted more than six hours. As a dedicated mom, wife, daughter, friend, and pediatrician, she radiated light, love, and joy in everything she did and with everyone she touched, her family said, in part, in a statement. Our only comfort is knowing she is now with Jesus and all the heavenly saints who are undoubtedly already looking forward to her first costume party.