Victim identified in Dallas Methodist hospital shooting - The Dallas Morning News

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By Michael Williams and Lana Ferguson

9:32 AM connected Oct 24, 2022 CDT — Updated 4 minutes ago

Update: This communicative was updated astatine 3:26 p.m. to see the individuality of the 2nd victim.

Authorities connected Monday identified two women shot to death astatine Methodist Dallas Medical Center implicit the weekend.

Jacqueline Ama Pokuaa, 45, was killed successful the Saturday shooting, the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office said. Katie Flowers, 63, was the 2nd idiosyncratic who died aft being changeable Saturday, Dallas Police Chief Eddie García said during a Monday property conference.

Pokuaa served arsenic a lawsuit worker. Flowers was a nurse.

Nestor Oswaldo Hernandez, 30, faces charges of superior murder. According to an arrest-warrant affidavit, Hernandez was astatine the infirmary for the commencement of his kid erstwhile helium began acting strangely, accusing his woman of cheating connected him.

Related:Suspect successful fatal Methodist Dallas shooting connected parole, astatine infirmary for commencement of his child

Hernandez struck his woman with a handgun and vowed to sprout the archetypal idiosyncratic who walked into the room, according to the affidavit. When idiosyncratic walked into the room, helium opened fire, fatally shooting that idiosyncratic and a 2nd idiosyncratic who looked into the country from the hall, authorities said.

Hernandez was a parolee with a past of robbery convictions who had been released from situation past year. While authorities person not disclosed the nonstop presumption of his parole, constabulary said Hernandez was wearing an ankle show during the shooting. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said helium was fixed support to beryllium astatine the infirmary for the birth.

Authorities person not disclosed the conditions of Hernandez’s important other, oregon of the child.

The hospital’s enactment said successful a written connection implicit the play they had mislaid 2 “beloved squad members.”

“The Methodist Health System Family is heartbroken astatine the nonaccomplishment of 2 of our beloved squad members. Our full enactment is grieving this unimaginable tragedy,” the infirmary system’s enforcement enactment said. “Our prayers are with our mislaid co-workers and their families, arsenic good arsenic our full Methodist family. We admit the community’s enactment during this hard time.”

Michael Williams

Michael Williams, Breaking News reporter. Michael D. Williams is simply a newsman covering breaking quality for The Dallas Morning News. A autochthonal of Florida, helium grew up successful Pensacola and graduated from the University of Central Florida successful 2018. Before joining The News successful 2021, helium reported successful Orlando, Albany, N.Y., and San Francisco.

michael.williams@dallasnews.com @michaeldamianw

Lana Ferguson

Lana Ferguson, Breaking News Reporter. Lana Ferguson joined The Dallas Morning News aft reporting successful South Carolina's Lowcountry for The Island Packet & Beaufort Gazette newspapers. She graduated from the University of Mississippi wherever she studied journalism and Southern studies. She's a Virginia autochthonal but her enactment has taken her each implicit the U.S., confederate Africa, and Sri Lanka.

lana.ferguson@dallasnews.com /LanaFergusonJournalist @thelanabanana

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