Two Nurses dead in North Texas

fedupnurse · May 22, 2002

That is so sad! How horrible for their families, friends and patients! God bless them.

Tiiki · May 22, 2002

How awful, sad. I am speachless. You go to work to save lives..and one brief moment..yours is gone. I have never been frightened of going to work. Hope I never am.

My prayers are with those nurses and their families.

Blessing.

JO

oramar · May 22, 2002

This is tragic. An initial investigation stated that the attack was directly related to cutbacks in funding of mental health care. This same man had checked himself into a inpatient mental health facility on many occasions when he felt himself going off the deep end. Under cost saving regulations he was no longer able to do that. We are having this same problem in Pennsylvania.

JMP · May 22, 2002

What an awful thing to happen!

Another good case for gun control.

Trauma Columnist · May 22, 2002

I live in central Illinois - our state mental health hospital closes September 1st. Our adult mental health unit at the hospital where I work, closes July 1st. We will go from having 120 beds for acutely mentally ill pts to having 10!!!!! As the mother of a bipolar teen who has been hospitalized, I am so very aware of how terribly dangerous this is going to be.

So very sorry for these nurses, families and their friends!!!

P_RN, ADN, RN · May 22, 2002

This is terrible. I'm surprised at the bail amount. Seeing as he has fled once, it would be more appropriate to have him remanded. My sincere condolences to their families and friends.

Silicone · May 23, 2002

The police had the wrong guy - looks like her husband did it.

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Police say the husband of a nurse killed in a McKinney hospital parking lot has confessed to the slaying.

Police said Allen firefighter Raymond Wingfield, 30, of Celina was arrested Wednesday in the fatal shooting last Thursday of nurse Amy Wingfield, 31, and the wounding of fellow nurse Alisa Stewart, 40, of Plano in the parking lot of North Central Medical Center in McKinney.

Police said Raymond Wingfield called the Collin County Sheriff's Office just before 6 p.m. Wednesday claiming people had shot at him near the Cottage Hill Cemetery, where his wife of eight years was buried Monday. Police determined the incident was staged and during an interview Wingfield gave police a written statement to his involvment in the hospital shooting.

"Wingfield also led investigators to a remote area where the weapon, believed to be used in the offenses, was recovered," the statement said.

Wingfield, 30, was booked into the Collin County Jail about 6:30 a.m. Thursday, said Lt. John Norton of the Collin County Sheriff's Department. Wingfield is a fireman in nearby Allen, where fire department spokeswoman Amanda Carroll said she could not comment.

Charges were dropped earlier Thursday against Paul E. Wooley, 46, and he was released from custody about 3:30 a.m. He had been charged with Amy Wingfield's slaying.

oramar · May 23, 2002

How in the world did the story get so messed up. There has been no mention of the husband in any other release.

jevans · May 23, 2002

This is so sad

A prayer to the nurses and their families

Atleast here we have very few guns but then who can tell

j

2ndCareerRN · May 23, 2002

Another good case for gun control

I am curious as to what you mean by "gun control". Do you mean disarming the populace of the US? Do you mean stricter controls on who buys what, such as in Canada? I am at a loss as to how "gun control" would have made a difference in this case. It seems that the husband wanted her dead, a gun was the tool of choice this time. If he had not had the gun, I beleive he would have found another way to kill her.

So you can see where my feelings lie, a gun is nothing more than a tool, I have guns and I have yet to see one of them do anything on their own. They are inanimate objects, incapable of leaving the safe and causing harm on their own.

Yes, the US has it share of firearms violence, yet so do many countries with laws prohibiting or severely restricting gun ownership.

I am not sure "gun control" is the answer, esp. in the US. There are already thousands of laws on the books to regulate guns, yet very few are enforced. So, rather than try and force more control onto us, I feel the just the opposite would be a better alternative. Less control for law abiding citizens, after all, I believe Robert Heinlien said it best when he said "An armed society is a polite society."

bob

Y2KRN · May 23, 2002

I will remember them in my thoughts and prayers, as well as their families, friends, co-workers, and patients.

Y2KRN