{"id":854540,"date":"2020-02-20T11:24:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T17:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=854540"},"modified":"2020-02-21T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T17:24:06","slug":"pre-trial-hearing-for-former-tyler-nurse-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=854540","title":{"rendered":"D.A. to Seek Death Penalty for Former Tyler Nurse Charged with Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-854541\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/02\/WGD-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Smith County District Attorney Jacob Putman will seek the death penalty for William Davis, the nurse accused of murdering patients at CHRISTUS Owen Heart Hospital. According to our news partner KETK, the next hearing is scheduled for April 24th in the 114th District Courtroom. Davis, 36, faces multiple counts that include capital murder, first-degree murder and aggravated assault.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Davis has been in the Smith County Jail on a $6.75 million bond since his arrest in August 2018. The murder trial has been scheduled for September. He was a registered nurse for CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital, but was fired back in February 2018 for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153falsification of care events and his unethical practice related to failure to disclose interventions provided.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d On March 16, 2018, the Texas Board of Nursing issued a Temporary Suspension Order against Davis, citing cases in which the Board determined Davis was a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153continuing and imminent threat to the public welfare.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d An arrest warrant alleges that Davis intentionally introduced air into the patients\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 arterial lines, causing death and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153permanent and debilitating\u00e2\u20ac\u009d injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Smith County District Attorney Jacob Putman will seek the death penalty for William Davis, the nurse accused of murdering patients at CHRISTUS Owen Heart Hospital. According to our news partner KETK, the next hearing is scheduled for April 24th in the 114th District Courtroom. Davis, 36, faces multiple counts that include capital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=854540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">D.A. to Seek Death Penalty for Former Tyler Nurse Charged with Murder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":854541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 04:02:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854540"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854637,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854540\/revisions\/854637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/854541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}