Prominent Surgeon Murdered by Patient IN EXAM ROOM: WHY?
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Police say the shooting of a Tennessee hand surgeon was a targeted event.
Dr. Benjamin Mauck was shot to death in front of a nurse, in an exam room. Larry Pickens, 29, was later arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
Staff at the Campbell Clinic Orthopedics say they recognized the shooter from previous appointments. Mauk was shot three times in the neck, chest, and upper abdomen.
A psychological evaluation of the suspect has been ordered.
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- Dr. Michelle Joy- Forensic, Clinical, and Academic Psychiatrist; Author: “An Illustrated History of the Insanity Defense;” Twitter:@Westphillymorbidart
- Patricia Caristo – Executive Director, Resource Center for Victims of Violent Death; Private Investigator and Former Detective at University of New Mexico Police Dept.
- Dr. Jan Gorniak – Medical Examiner, Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner (Las Vegas, NV), Board Certified Forensic Pathologist
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| 0:00.0 | A Top Memphis Surgeon is gunned down in his own exam room. |
| 0:21.4 | Why? |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:24.1 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:25.5 | Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series XM-111. |
| 0:30.4 | Take a listen to our friends at WR-EG. |
| 0:32.4 | Explosive viewer video shows Choirville Police running intensely to find the suspect. |
| 0:37.6 | As sirens blare signaling the large response to the scene. |
| 0:41.2 | Susan Baker had just entered with her family when the chaos started. |
| 0:54.2 | Can you imagine going to your doctor's office taking your children there, sitting there |
| 0:59.3 | in the waiting room, thumping through magazines looking at your phone when you hear shots |
| 1:03.9 | ring out and then all H-E-WL breaks loose. |
| 1:08.6 | The most you can do is die for your children to try to save them. |
| 1:13.0 | Nobody knowing what's going on. |
| 1:16.2 | This surgeon seemingly beloved husband and father, a well-known surgeon in the Memphis |
| 1:25.9 | area, gunned down in his own office in an exam room when patients attack, why? |
| 1:36.8 | With me and I'll start pale to make sense of what we know right now. |
| 1:40.5 | But take a listen to our friends at WMCTV. |
| 1:44.5 | Choirville Police Chief Dale Lane says a patient of Campbell Clinic on Poplar shot and killed |
| 1:49.2 | an employee around 2 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. |
| 1:52.5 | Clinic officials confirm the victim is orthopedic hand surgeon Dr. Benjamin Moff. |
| 1:57.6 | So this appears to be a one-on-one interaction that occurred in an exam room. |
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