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A Boston cardiac surgeon critically wounded by a gunman at Brigham and Women's Hospital has died.
Dr. Michael Davidson, of Wellesley, was shot twice at the cardiac center Tuesday morning after a man demanded to see the surgeon. The 44-year-old Davidson died despite the frantic efforts of co-workers to save him, Boston police said.
The shooter, who turned the gun on himself and committed suicide in an examining room, had some kind of previous relationship with the doctor, police said. He was identified as Stephen Pasceri, 55, of Millbury.
LinkedInDr. Michael Davidson, a cardiac surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, was shot twice by Stephen Pasceri on Tuesday.
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Telegram.com Stephen Pasceri, of Millbury. Mass., is seen in this 2004 photo.
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Dr. Michael Davidson, a cardiac surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, was shot twice by Stephen Pasceri (R) on Tuesday.
Pasceri's mother was a former patient of Davidson's, sources told WCVB-TV. She died in November.
“The doctor came out to see him — that’s when altercation took place,” said Boston Police Commissioner William Evans.
“There was something in the past that upset this guy that had him come in looking for this particular doctor,” Evans said.
Chaos broke out as news of the shooting spread, witnesses recounted.
"A security guard came in and said we need to evacuate the building immediately," James Patelli told WBZ-TV. "People started yelling 'get down, get down.'"
Davidson, a Yale graduate, had worked at the hospital since 2006 and was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, The Boston Globe reported.
“No words can express how heartbroken we are by this tragedy,” the Pasceri family said, in part, in a written statement. “We are saddened and struggling to make sense of what has transpired.”
With Jason Molinet
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