Posted on 07/03/2010 10:42:34 AM PDT by mlizzy
Woman had filed for divorce and sought an order of protection
An Elmhurst surgeon apparently shot his wife and killed himself Friday, a month after she filed for divorce and sought an order of protection against him, according to police and court records.
Dr. Hani Hennein, 52, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the family home in the 700 block of South Hillside Avenue just after 7 a.m., police said.
His estranged wife, Julia Hennein, 52, was found shot in the face. She underwent surgery at Loyola University Hospital in Maywood. A family member said she was expected to survive the shooting.
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Looks like he had a missionary background. Very sad.
How awful. It sounds, at least, as though he shot her with a weapon that was not a shotgun (which does not do good things to a face) so hopefully she will not only survive but will not be horribly disfigured. Many prayers for her and the entire family.
This pattern, when a woman leaves the man, divorces him, the man kills her and himself, is not unknown.
Wonder why these men cannot bear to live without this woman, after all, he had a lot going for him. I think it must be a crisis mode, and if he could be gotten through it with help wouldn’t have done this.
Trouble is, spotting it before it happens and his accepting help.
Humanity. We’ve got a lot of problems we maybe can never solve.
This type of behavior is something I’ll never understand. Hope the wife/mom will recover quickly. I guess it’s good she’s rid of him.
NY has the most horrific divorces in America.
These tragedies are common in New York.
Not sure what you do with a protective order? Do you roll them up and hit the attacker with it?
I think that if you go get a protective order you should also be required to take a weapons course and carry said weapon.
Dr. Hani Hennein, a pediatric heart surgeon
Two teens were in the home at the time of the shooting, but were not hurt.
Dr. Hani A. Hennein was arrested on a charge of domestic battery on May 29 in connection with slapping one of his daughters, according to court records.
Julia M. Hennein filed for divorce and an order of protection against Dr. Hani A. Hennein on June 1, according to court records. In the divorce, Julia M. Hennein alleged physical abuse and extreme mental cruelty.
Tree-lined avenues, parks, stately old homes, a garden-lovers' paradise, great schools, home to many professionals in business, education, science and technology, a college, many churches plus a fine hospital which attracts good doctors in all specialties.
In some ways kinda right out of an Andy Hardy movie.....except.......
Leni
Obamacare?
Looks like he might be a Muzzie. With the name Hani. Hmmm, anyone got a guess as to the nationality of this guy?
Julia Hennein, also 52, was being treated for her wound at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.
She had filed for divorce on June 1, alleging in court documents that her husband was “mentally and physically abusive” to her and to their two youngest daughters, who are 16 and 14.
That divorce filing came only three days after Dr. Hennein was arrested for misdemeanor battery for allegedly striking his 16-year-old daughter twice in the head with his hand.
Hennein was released after posting $100 bail, and that charge was still pending.
After filing for divorce, Julia Hennein was given exclusive rights to the family’s Elmhurst home and physical custody of the couple’s two youngest children, but Dr. Hennein was allowed supervised visits with those children at least once a week.
He also was allowed to spend Father’s Day with them.
The couple also has two older children, a 22-year-old daughter and an 18-year-old son, records indicate.
Julia Hennein initially had sought an order of protection against her husband when she filed for divorce, which allowed him to contact her only to discuss their children. But court records appear to indicate that order was vacated on June 17.
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“They’ve had disturbances there before,” said Jacie Verdak, a 15-year-old who lives across the street. A few weeks ago, she saw the police outside the house, and a daughter, whom she knew from school, was outside crying.
Two nights ago, Verdak said her sister saw Hennein walking around his garage and driveway, talking to himself.
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“She was afraid of her father,” Connell said. “He was coming home, and she wanted us to stay because she was afraid of what might happen.” Later she changed her mind and asked them to leave.
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The Henneins lived in a newly built home, the largest on the block. They had not yet fully unpacked, but art objects reflecting their Egyptian heritage, including a gold plate painted with images of pharaohs, were displayed prominently.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/2459992,doctor-shoots-wife-kills-himself-070210.article
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There was a heart surgeon at the Children’s Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas who saved thousands of babies a year. He was featured in a television special years ago. After he was diagnosed with cancer (and recovered) he was found dead in his office at home where he took an overdose.
Sometimes we don’t understand the pressure and we certainly don’t know what goes on behind closed doors. Just because people are doctors obviously doesn’t make any other problems go away.
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Jonathan Drummond-Webb (August 29, 1959 – December 26, 2004) was a South African pediatric heart surgeon.
He gained national attention by way of a TV series produced by ABC NEWS called “ICU: Arkansas Children’s Hospital” , which showcased complicated operations during the summer of 2002. Late in 2004, he led a team that successfully kept a child alive with a newly developed heart pump until a heart transplant could be performed. The child, Travis Marcus, was able to go home in time for Christmas with a gift and a hug from Dr. Drummond-Webb.
Drummond-Webb was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and graduated from the University of Witwatersrand in 1982. He completed an internship and two residencies there. He and his wife Lorraine De Blanche (also a doctor) came to the U.S. in 1995 so he could do a surgical fellowship at the University of Utah. In 1997, he went on to another fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. There, he became the surgical director of pediatric cardiac and lung transplantation. In 2001, he was named chief of pediatric and congenital cardiac surgery at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. He held that post at the time of his death.
Hospital spokesman Tom Bonner said the surgeon was a competitive marathoner and triathlete who loved scuba diving. Drummond-Webb also was a champion of Arkansas, appearing in commercials promoting the state to businesses.
Drummond-Webb committed suicide by taking an overdose of Oxycodone, a pain medication. His wife found his body with a note. According to the Arkansas Children’s Hospital, friends believed he suffered from a sudden bout of depression. His suicide note indicated professional frustration may have been a factor in his death.
Friends said the doctor, who once described himself as “a bit of an extreme personality,” suffered a sudden bout of depression. He had been diagnosed with a rare tissue cancer on his hip in 2001 but was successfully treated with surgery.
Dr. Drummond-Webb’s accomplishments over 18 months in 2001 and early 2002 — 830 surgeries with a 2 percent mortality rate — became the subject of a four-part ABC News documentary, “ICU: Arkansas Children’s Hospital.”
A Los Angeles Times reviewer, praising the 2002 series, called Dr. Drummond-Webb a “medical miracle worker, triathlete, and surgeon extraordinaire.”
“Some would say they saved 98 out of 100,” Bates told the Associated Press. “He looked at it and said ‘I lost two out of 100.’ “
“This is a high-risk business. We see children walking out, we also see children who do not make it,” Dr. Drummond-Webb said.
“I work on very hard facts and very hard statistics,” he told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette two years ago. “Even though we are driven by compassion, I think it’s foolhardy to just proceed with compassion and heart alone. . . . The bottom line is that we’re dealing with hard scientific evidence, and what I do demands ultimate perfection.”
A native of Johannesburg, South Africa, Dr. Drummond-Webb was 8 years old on Dec. 3, 1967, when Dr. Christiaan Barnard made history by performing the world’s first successful heart transplant in Cape Town.
“He was a saint in my mind,” Dr. Drummond-Webb told the Democrat-Gazette. “I knew then that that’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to operate on hearts.”
The son of two well-to-do liberal intellectuals, whose surnames form his hyphenated name, Dr. Drummond-Webb attended boarding school and earned a medical degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. After two years service in the South African army, he completed a residency in cardiothoracic surgery at Johannesburg Hospital.
Encouraged by his wife, Dr. Lorraine E. de Blanche, Dr. Drummond-Webb emigrated to escape South African government restrictions on medical practice. In 1993, he became a fellow in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at the University of Utah LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City.
Two years later, he moved to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, one of the most prominent centers in the United States for heart surgery.
He was lured to the Little Rock hospital by what he saw as a state of the art operating room, an enthusiastic surgical staff, and unlimited potential. He was determined to build the hospital into a nationally dominant pediatric cardiac center.
Dr. Drummond-Webb, who said he competed in triathlons merely to keep himself in shape for surgery, also became an associate professor of surgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He conducted research and set a frenetic pace performing surgeries — nearly three times the normal annual tally of 200.
Dr. Drummond-Webb leaves his wife.
Egyptian.
Answering my own question, just clicked on link above to other article about this, and sure enough, they are of Egyptian heritage. In other words, another misogynist male Muzzie plugs his wife. Being in the U.S., he couldn’t just say he was divorcing her three times, and I’m sure he knew she’d get a good chunk of money and property out of the deal. Good thing he’s dead now. The rest of his family can finally rest easy. Hope the mom pulls through, and that the kids are Americanized enough that none of them follow in their father’s abusive footsteps. Islam, the religion of peace.....
Years ago my young son was very good friends with a well to do family in a wealthy area on LI who was undergoing a divorce.
The father chased the woman throughout the house with a knife, finally cornering her in the kids bedroom (yes they were in bed) before stabbing her about 40 times. The grandparents actually got involved in a coverup, and the feelings were bitter.
It was shocking and horrid, but you are right, of course, where there is money involved and people feel abused by justice there will always be more extreme reaction.
I’ve seen this happen in plenty of non muslim families.
What I do notice more in muslim families, is even when the marraige is supposedly “functional”, the women are abused for taking “excessive” freedoms. I do note in this story that a little before he slapped the 16 year old daughter.
That I find unusual.
I know a divorce lawyer who reminds her clients regularly: a restraining order is just a piece of paper.
I know a divorce lawyer who reminds her clients regularly: a restraining order is just a piece of paper.
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