Former Nurse Found Guilty of Capital Murder

LUFKIN (AP) – An Angelina County jury has found former DaVita Dialysis nurse Kimberly Saenz guilty of capital murder. In the punishment phase Monday, she faces life in prison or death by lethal injection. Jurors in Lufkin on Thursday began deliberating in the capital murder trial of Kimberly Clark Saenz. They got the case after closing arguments. Angelina County District Attorney Clyde Herrington told jurors the five patients Saenz is accused of killing in April 2008 had trusted her with their care but instead had their lives cut short by her. Defense attorney Ryan Deaton told the jury that Saenz is innocent and is being targeted by the clinic’s owner for faulty procedures at the facility in Lufkin.