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Thursday, December 24, 2015

A father’s desperate – but dangerous – strategy to keep his ‘brain dead’ son on life support

“Hey, we need the police stat, to the hospital. We have a family member with a gun.”

This is the call that a staff member at Tomball Regional Medical Center put in 11 months ago, when George Pickering of Pinehurst, Tex., angrily pulled out a 9 mm handgun while standing at his son’s hospital bedside.

Gary Hammond, Tomball police’s head of criminal investigations, told the Houston Chronicle at the time that Pickering was “distraught” over the care his son, George Pickering III, was receiving. The younger Pickering was on life support after having a stroke.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just trip the circuit breakers for that room, end of problem.

Anonymous said...

the death panels have decided, i presume.

Anonymous said...

Wait until he gets the first hospital bill. He'll be ready to turn out the rest of the lights, then.