Two Massachusetts doctors were found in their luxury Boston condo Friday night with their throats slashed, police said.
Authorities in Boston identified the couple as Richard Field, 49, and Lina Bolanos, 38. They were found dead on the 11th floor of the Macallan Building in their residence, Fox 25 Boston reported.
Police arrested Bampumin Teixeira, 30, in connection with the murders. The station reported that police responded to a call of a man with a gun in the area. As police arrived, Teixeira began firing at the officers. Police returned fire and hit the man several times, but did not kill him.
Teixeira has a criminal record. He pleaded guilty to two bank robberies – one in 2014 and the other in 2016. In both instances, he passed the bank teller a note saying he had a weapon but never brandished one. Fox 25 Boston reported that he will be arraigned Monday on a long list of charges.
Field was a doctor at North Shore Pain management and served as an anesthesiologist and pain management specialist at several other places.
"His tragic and sudden passing leaves an inescapable void in all of us. Our deepest thoughts are with his friends and family," North Shore Pain management said in a statement.
Bolanos was a pediatric anesthesiologist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear.
UPDATE: Victims found murdered in S. Boston condo both anesthesiologists, Dr. Lina Bolanos (pictured) & Dr. Richard Field. They were engaged pic.twitter.com/CDOEKcVog2 — Elysia Rodriguez (@ElysiaBoston25) May 6, 2017
"Dr. Bolanos was an outstanding pediatric anesthesiologist and a wonderful colleague in the prime of both her career and life. We will do all we can to support their families and our staff members who are processing this senseless tragedy and grieving an enormous loss," John Fernandez, president and CEO of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, said in a statement.
The specialty hospital added that Bolanos and Field were engaged to be married.
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nematocyst987 on May 7th, 2017 at 15:22 UTC »
This is very sad .. Dr. Bolanos worked at the best eye and ear specialty hospital in the world and she was truly an excellent doctor. I'm not sure what will come out of the investigation, but her reputation as a physician was that she knew her stuff and really cared about her patients.
drleeisinsurgery on May 7th, 2017 at 15:19 UTC »
I am an anesthesiologist and have done pain management in the past.
Three thoughts:
Pain management is a very dangerous field. Many of your patients are addicts who might take offense at the attempt to try to wean them off narcotics (main purpose of a pain physician). Also, the mistaken belief that narcotics are stored in the office.
Selling narcotics and scripts used to be rampant, but it's pretty hard these days with additional DEA tracking and pharmacy supervision.
Unrelated to the article, too many of my colleagues have fancy cars with custom license plates identifying them as doctors. I regularly park next to DRPAIN, LVDOC, SEVOMD (inside joke) and even worse, with their last names.
Shabiznik1 on May 7th, 2017 at 13:15 UTC »
What in the fuck is going on with these sentences? How do you serve a measly 9 months for multiple bank robberies?