DALLAS — Hospitals are supposed to exist as places of healing.
But on Oct. 22, Methodist Dallas Medical Center became a scene of terror and chaos when a gunman fatally shot two health care workers before barricading himself in a hospital room with the mother of his child and their newborn.
The tragic deaths of nurse Katie Annette Flowers and social worker Jacqueline Ama Pokuaa shocked the North Texas medical community, and local leaders quickly looked for explanations as to what systemic failures allowed such a devastating event to take place. Less than three weeks later, Dallas County medical examiner Beth Frost was shot and killed at work.
