Posted on 11/29/2013 10:45:45 AM PST by Sheapdog
(CNN) -- Gail Sandidge rushed to help when screams rang out during a stabbing at a Texas medical center on Tuesday.
Horrified patients and family members watched as a man stabbed the nurse in the chest.
"She was just saying...'I'm hurt. He got me,'" witness Jana Jackson told CNN affiliate KLTV. "And that's when we realized there was blood all on the front of her scrubs."
Hours later, authorities pronounced Sandidge dead. Police said four others were wounded when 22-year-old suspect Kyron Templeton attacked visitors and employees Tuesday morning at Good Shepherd Ambulatory Surgical Center in Longview, Texas.
The hospital's president told reporters that the dedicated nurse died trying to save her patients.
"Nurses are protectors by nature. And Gail, she fit that profile," said Steve Altmiller, head of Good Shepherd Health Systems. "She was protecting her patients in an act of courage today, and in so doing, she lost her life."
He described Sandidge as "a seamstress, a Sunday-school teacher of 2-year-olds, a huge Baylor fan, a mother, a grandmother, a healer, a trainer, a mentor, a nurturer." She had worked for the hospital for nearly two decades, he said.
Police arrested Templeton on a street near the hospital, KLTV reported. He was arraigned on one count of first-degree murder and four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon Tuesday. But authorities haven't identified a motive, a police spokeswoman said.
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He is crazy. Crazy people do not need motives.
And yet it keeps them out of the death penalty, although I don’t know why.
"He had a death grip on the knife and he was just muttering and his eyes were kind of wild-looking," said Jackson's husband, Chad. "It was just, he was very confused."
He had just begun to straighten out his life. He was an aspiring rapper.
Gun free zones are an invitation to evil. Even the insane seem to conveniently distinguish the zoning differences. Free food & board at the jail house beats instant retaliation by some concealed carrier.
Why did I know what he looked like?
“Gun Free Zones” AKA Killing Fields.
There is a racial war on, egged on and fueled by the anti-American muslim living in our White House. And it’s getting worse. I have begun to develop an intense hatred of “blacks” that I never ever had before.
It doesn’t take much to make a person snap, when they aren’t playing with a full deck to begin with.
One of Holder’s people.
http://www.news-journal.com/news/police/victims-suspect-identified-in-stabbing-spree-at-good-shepherd-medical/article_9389
The East Texas woods are full of these inbreds.
RIP Gail, you died a hero.
I guess he wanted to do all the surgery.
His last FB post “outta drank on a monday... damn damn damn”
What more needs to be said?
Kyron??? What is that a old amish name????
Purple Drank??
He is a feral animal and should be put down as such. He removed a worthwhile and caring person from this world. Screw him/it and its family.
And prayers for her family.
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