In a letter, the suspect in the Tulsa, Oklahoma hospital shooting reportedly wrote that he wanted to kill his doctor, Dr. Preston Phillips, who performed surgery on him for a back problem.
Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin said that the letter written by Michael Lewis was found, where his intentions were clear and to kill “anyone who got in his way”.
“We also found a letter on the suspect that made it clear that he entered with the intent to kill Dr. Phillips and anyone who got in his way,” Flankin said. “He blamed Dr. Phillips for the continued pain after the surgery.”
According to a CNN report, the suspect was admitted to the hospital for back surgery on 19 May.
The police chief said a woman called 911, apparently the wife, to charge that her husband had killed four people in Dr. Phillips’ office.
“We got a call from the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, and that dispatcher told us that a woman on the line, whose name they didn’t have, called saying her husband had killed several people in Dr. Phillips’ office,” Franklin said. “This would have been half an hour after the event occurred.”
The subject killed four people before committing suicide in the Natalie Building, on the St. Francis Hospital campus.
The authorities have found several shell casings at the scene of the shooting, but have not provided any further details about this shooting, which is the 233 so far on 2022, according to a count by the organization Gun Violence Archive.