Prosecutors say former doctor killed 4 to avenge firing
OMAHA, Neb. — Prosecutors in Nebraska opened a first-degree murder trial Monday against a former doctor by arguing he committed four killings in Omaha to avenge his firing from Creighton University Medical Center.
Prosecutors outlined their case against Anthony Garcia, who is charged with stabbing to death the 11-year-old son of two medical doctors and the family’s housekeeper in 2008 and then killing another Omaha doctor and his wife in 2013. They said the killings were motivated by Garcia’s long-simmering rage from being fired from the medical school’s residency program in 2001, according to the Omaha World-Herald (http://bit.ly/2dMUkG5 ).
“This is a case about revenge,” Deputy County Attorney Brenda Beadle said. “This is a man whose life was spiraling into disaster, and he blamed Creighton.”
Garcia’s attorneys responded that prosecutors lack witnesses or physical evidence.