TYLER (WBAP/KLIF News) – A former East Texas nurse is charged with murder and could face more charges.
34-year-old George William Davis of Hallsville is accused of intentionally causing harm to a patient.
He’s being held at the Smith County Jail on a $2 million bond.
Tyler Police Chief Jimmy Toler said Davis was a nurse at Christus Mother Frances Hospital and was fired earlier this year when the Texas Medical Board found that Davis inappropriately intervened with patients in the ICU of the Louis and Peaches Owens Heart Hospital.
The Texas Board of Nursing suspended Davis’ license on March 16, 2018.
Toler said investigators are sure how many people may have been victimized by Davis.
“It’s anticipated that we will file multiple aggravated assault charges on top of this one and we are currently investigating up to 7 at Christus,” he said.
The investigation dates back to last year.
According to court documents, on three separate occasions starting August 4, 2017, Davis entered the room of patients that he was unassigned to and performed “unskilled and/or unnecessary and/or inappropriate” actions on the victims.
After he left, each patient’s condition rapidly deteriorated.
One person died and two others were left in a vegetative state.
The documents state that an autopsy found that the patient who died suffered from a cortical acute ischemic infarction from an air embolism that led to the patient’s death.
The last incident, which occurred on or around January 25th, Davis allegedly admitted to hospital staff that he entered a patients room and silenced an IV that was beeping.
He is also accused of falsifying records and failing to disclose his interventions to hospital staff.
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