Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Doctor Fatally Shot
KENTUCKY....
Kentucky State Police report, around 11:40 A.M. Tuesday, Dr. Dennis Sandlin was fatally shot in the head with a handgun while at the Leatherwood-Blackey Medical Clinic in Cornettsville of Perry County. The clinic is owned by Mountain Comprehensive Health Corp., and Sandlin had been a doctor at the clinic for 25 years and was nearing retirement. Later in the day, KSP arrested 46 year old John Combs of Red Fox in neighboring Knott County. Clinic employees said, earlier in the day, Combs became angry and combative after refusing to take a urine test as a requirement of being prescribed pain pills. They say Combs had threatened to come back and blow up the clinic.
Kentucky State Police report, around 11:40 A.M. Tuesday, Dr. Dennis Sandlin was fatally shot in the head with a handgun while at the Leatherwood-Blackey Medical Clinic in Cornettsville of Perry County. The clinic is owned by Mountain Comprehensive Health Corp., and Sandlin had been a doctor at the clinic for 25 years and was nearing retirement. Later in the day, KSP arrested 46 year old John Combs of Red Fox in neighboring Knott County. Clinic employees said, earlier in the day, Combs became angry and combative after refusing to take a urine test as a requirement of being prescribed pain pills. They say Combs had threatened to come back and blow up the clinic.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 7:28 PM 
