Police: Tulsa Suspect Targeted Surgeon He Blamed For Pain

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Emergency personnel respond to a shooting at the Natalie Medical Building Wednesday, June 1, 2022. in Tulsa, Okla. Multiple people were shot at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus Wednesday. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)

OKLAHOMA (AP) – Authorities say the man who opened fire at a Tulsa medical office had purchased an AR-style rifle hours before fatally shooting four people.

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Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin says the gunman had recently undergone back surgery and had called a clinic repeatedly complaining of pain.

Franklin says the doctor who performed the surgery, Dr. Preston Phillips, was among those killed Wednesday.

“We also have a letter on the suspect, which made it clear that he came in with the intent to kill Dr. Phillips and anyone who got in his way,” Franklin said. “He blamed Dr. Phillips for the ongoing pain following the surgery.”


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Aviva Cohen
Aviva Cohen
1 year ago

Lack of ethical and moral behavior.
2 legged animal

Educated Archy
Educated Archy
1 year ago

Ill repeat this again

Peter
Peter
1 year ago

He is painful free now, good. Why couldn’t he do just that? How come he needed to take the Dr. and innocent people with him? A miss calculation

Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon
1 year ago

They want to take our guns & 2nd Amend. Meanwhile they’re allowing illegal immigrants , rapists , murderers and drug trade to cross into the US. Allowing thousands of youth to die and otherwise become addicted. Tens of thousands are succumbing to the drug pushers and they worry about guns.

Qazxc
Qazxc
1 year ago

Only in America

Broken record
Broken record
1 year ago

Please remove this story. It doesn’t fit the Biden white house narrative.

Educated Archy
Educated Archy
1 year ago

Ill repeat this again. The only way to stop this craziness is to grab the mass shooter and hang him. Maybe a judge gets to decide. We need to teach copy cats a lesson. These less than animal low lives do not deserve human treatment or pity. And don’t give me this grabage about how do we know he is guiilty? Like hello he killed in public. Its on camera. His guilt is unquestionable. A tone of eyewitnesses saw. What kind of harry small brain tam kup are you to think that sicko mass murder desreves a trial? And taht we shouldn;t kill him in a painful wat for all to see? Are you insane? Oh I get it, The “law” says everyone deserves a fiar trial. Harry follwing the law. Use brains and kill the guy. A nerve of this Buffalo shooter to “plead not guilty ” and make a mockery of us. This needs to stop and its stops via showing if you kill we will kill you gruesomely. He who has pity on these creatures have only blood shed hanging on their neck.

PS pf course tougher gun laws too. Yes don’t worry about the second ammendment.

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