Boston heart surgeon shot and killed at Harvard teaching hospital

A prominent Boston cardiovascular surgeon died late Tuesday night, 20 January, after being shot in an exam room area at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching hospital in Boston affiliated with Harvard Medical School.

Boston police officials said that Michael J Davidson, director of endovascular cardiac surgery at the hospital, was shot twice shortly after 11 am Tuesday. Police officials said that Davidson was shot by Stephen Pasceri, 55, of Millbury, Massachusetts, a son of Marguerite E Pasceri, a patient of Davidson’s who …